Profligacy
['prɔfliɡəsi]
Definition
(a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Typist: Naomi
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shamelessness, dissoluteness, depravity, reprobation
ANT:Virtue, probity, integrity, principle, conscientiousness
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- There was only one of our society who carried politeness so far as to seem amused at such disgusting profligacy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I shall never allow people to talk before me about wastefulness and profligacy, and so forth, in connexion with that life, any more. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He has run a course of despicable, commonplace profligacy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Diana