profligacy

The celebrity's profligacy with money led to his financial downfall.

Her profligacy with time resulted in missed deadlines.

The company's profligacy in spending on unnecessary luxuries raised concerns among shareholders.

His profligacy in gambling drained his savings.

The government's profligacy in budgeting has led to a growing national debt.

She was known for her profligacy in buying designer clothes.

The profligacy of the royal family was a topic of gossip among the common people.

His profligacy with resources caused shortages in the production process.

The profligacy of the corporation's executives was exposed in a financial audit.

The profligacy of the politician's lifestyle raised questions about his integrity.

There is no question, in other words, that America will end up bearing much of the cost of Puerto Rico's past profligacy.

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

Uncertainty about the euro zone's future is still acute, not least because its politicians are more focused on preventing future profligacy than supporting embattled economies today.

Worried by the pollution caused by a throwaway culture, Oliver Franklin-Wallis-a British journalist who has written for The Economist-heads to places that best illustrate this profligacy.

Both parents and the government, in consequence of this view, may be said to wink at profligacy, and even in the last resource to encourage its practice.

In the near future such a level—once seen by fiscal hawks as evidence of profligacy—may come to be viewed as a relic of a more prudent time.

The extravagance and general profligacy which he scrupled not to lay to Mr. Wickham's charge, exceedingly shocked her; the more so, as she could bring no proof of its injustice.

Germany, for instance, thinks the main problem is fiscal profligacy and so is reluctant to boost Europe's rescue fund; yet a far bigger fund is needed if a rescue is to be credible.

Think of tricky customers like Argentina, whose profligacy made it a serial defaulter on its sovereign debt, or Turkey, where interest rates remain low even as inflation blazes above 80%.

His conduct is observed and attended to by nobody; and he is, therefore, very likely to neglect it himself, and to abandon himself to every sort of low profligacy and vice.