Profligacy Synonyms

Excessive freedom; lack of restraint
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dissolution
  2. licentiousness
  3. dissoluteness
  4. libertinism
  5. dissipation
  6. license
  7. looseness

Words Related to Profligacy

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Profligacy Sentence Examples

  • In Constantinople itself sedition and profligacy were rampant, the emperors were the tools of faction and cared but little for the interests of their subjects, whose lot was one of hopeless misery and depravity.

  • The ancient historians invariably note the profligacy of the inhabitants of Byzantium.

  • As a natural consequence of such licence, Munster was for twelve months a scene of unbridled profligacy.

  • The most important bill vetoed was the Dependent Pension Bill, a measure of extreme profligacy, opening the door, by the vagueness of its terms, to enormous frauds upon the treasury.

  • She is accused by Dio Cassius and Capitolinus of gross profligacy, and was reputed to have instigated the revolt of Avidius Cassius against her husband.

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