profligacy
noun/ˈpɹɑflɪɡəsi/US
Etymology
From profligate + -cy.
- borrowed from prōflīgātus
Definitions
Careless wastefulness.
- She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
Shameless and immoral behaviour.
- Sir Robert bitterly reproached himself for having consigned his child to another, when he saw the effect of too early initiation into profligacy, or, as Francis called it, knowledge of the world.
The neighborhood
- synonymcarrying-on
- synonymCorinthianism
- synonymknavery
- synonymprofligacy
- synonymrakehood
- synonymvice
- antonymvirtue
- neighborimmoral
- neighborimprobity
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for profligacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA