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Profligacy synonyms

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dissolution
The termination, as of a business, association, or union
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  1. The termination, as of a business, association, or union
  2. The termination, cessation, or winding up of a legal entity such as a corporation or partnership; the consensual or judicially ordered undoing of a contract by placing the parties back into the positions they held before entering into it; the termination of a marriage. The termination, cessation, or winding up of a legal entity such as a corporation or partnership; the consensual or judicially ordered undoing of a contract by placing the parties back into the positions they held before entering into it; the termination of a marriage.
  3. Annulment or termination of a formal or legal bond or relationship.
libertinism
The behavior characteristic of a libertine; promiscuity.
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  1. The behavior characteristic of a libertine; promiscuity.
  2. The state or quality of being libertine.
license
A permission granted by government to perform an act or service regulated by law (for example, a license to fish or to practice law).
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  1. A permission granted by government to perform an act or service regulated by law (for example, a license to fish or to practice law).
  2. A document, card, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission:
  3. Poetic license.
licentiousness
The property of being licentious.
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  1. The property of being licentious.
extravagance
Immoderate spending:
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  1. Immoderate spending:
  2. An instance of excess in spending, behavior, or speech
  3. A spending of more than is reasonable or necessary; excessive expenditure; wastefulness
extravagancy
(Archaic, 17-19th centuries) A thing that is extravagant.
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  1. (Archaic, 17-19th centuries) A thing that is extravagant.
  2. Extravagance.
  3. Something extravagant.
lavishness
The state or characteristic of being lavish.
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  1. The state or characteristic of being lavish.
profusion
Abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
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  1. Abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
  2. Rich or lavish supply; abundance
  3. Lavish or unrestrained expense; extravagance.
squander
(Rare) A squandering; extravagant expenditure
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  1. (Rare) A squandering; extravagant expenditure
waste
An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
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  1. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
  2. A wasting or being wasted
  3. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted:
Find another word for profligacy. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for profligacy, like: dissoluteness, dissolution, libertinism, license, licentiousness, extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profuseness and profusion.

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  • 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.

  • Its prosperity, as also its profligacy, is attested by the New Testament, by Strabo and Pausanias.

  • His extravagance, cruelty and profligacy can hardly be explained except on the assumption that he was out of his mind.

  • She was notorious for her profligacy, avarice and ambition, and exercised a complete ascendancy over her weak-minded husband, with the help of his all-powerful freedmen.

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