profligacy
profligate
noun[ C ]
 formaluk /ˈprɒf.lɪ.ɡət/ us /ˈprɑː.flɪ.ɡət/
someone who behaves in a way that is morally wrong or who spends and wastes a lot of money:
He is a drunkard and a profligate.
Is he a man of good character or is he a profligate?
The previous three monarchs were described as "a lunatic, a profligate, and a buffoon".
The famous Lord Rochester was once a profligate and an infidel, but at last became a true penitent.
In licentiousness he exceeded the most noted profligates of the day.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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act out
angel
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astray
at your worstidiom
be up to no goodidiom
go off the railsidiom
go round
gross misconduct
hellion
immoralist
profligacy
raise hellidiom
rakish
rakishly
rakishness
unworthily
unworthy
villainy
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profligate | American Dictionary

profligate
adjective
us/ˈprɑf·lɪ·ɡət, -ˌɡeɪt/
wasting something, esp. money:
profligate spending

Examples of profligate

profligate
This will encourage new generations of housebuyers and developers to be less profligate in the use of land.
She has been under arrest innumerable times, and when not in prison leads a most profligate and shameless life.
Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.
This safety factor does seem profligate, so what's going on?
We are awash in restless evangelicals, profligate of stern and apocalyptic advice.
These increases are profligate, expensive in terms of both mobility and infrastructure.
Synthetic problem solvers, on the other hand, are often designed with large fast memory structures, which make possible relatively profligate use of strategies employing backup.
It is clear that these two transformations are profligate in their introduction of propositions and generation of rules.
Second, the energy required to provide lighting is up to three times the amount converted into light: artificial lighting is a profligate use of energy.
Of course profligate owners have always struggled with the cost of upkeep.
The natural world is characterised as unruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.
This is probably due to the fact that gulls are attracted by the potential food made available by the profligate discarding of edible waste by man.
Thatcherite energy policy was entirely profligate and threw away the lead that we had in renewable energy—in wave and wind power.
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