Profligacy

Definition: Profligacy

Profligacy

Noun

1. The trait of spending extravagantly.

2. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "profligacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Profligacy \Prof"li*ga*cy\, noun. [See Profligate,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Profligacy

Vice

Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.

Crosswords: Profligacy

Books

• Porkbarrel: The Unexpurgated Grace Commission Story of Congressional Profligacy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

plëngprishje, shthurje (depravity, dissipation, laxity, lecherousness, lechery, unbraiding, undoing, venery), lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, drop, emission, failure, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, release, relief, sag, tolerance). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسوق (debauch, depravity, fornication, immorality, perversity, sensuality), ‏فجور (bawdry, dissipation, dissoluteness, immorality, libertinism, licence, license, wantonness, whoredom), ‏تهتك (dissipation, go to town), ‏تبذير (dissipation, extravagance, frittering away, improvidence, prodigality, profusion, squandering, throwing away, wastefulness, wasting), ‏خلاعة (dissipation, dissoluteness, immorality, lewdness, libertinism, porn, pornography, wantonness), ‏إسراف (exaggeration, excess, flamboyance, flamboyancy, improvidence, intemperance, luxury, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, squandering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разточителство (extravagance, improvidence, prodigality, profusion, superfluity), разврат (debaucheries, debauchery, depravation, filth, filthiness, fornication, immorality, laxity, lechery, riot), разпуснатост (dissipation, incontinence, laxity, licence, license, loose), безпътство, прахосничество (prodigality). (various references)

Czech

prostopášnost (debauchery, dissoluteness, licentiousness). (various references)

Farsi 

هرزگی (Debauch, Debauchery, Depravity, Incontinence, Lechery, Prurience, Ribaldry), ولگردی (Ramble, Stray, Tramp, Vagrancy), ولخرجی (Lavish, Prodigality, Squander). (various references)

French

libertinage, extrême prodigalité, débauche. (various references)

German

Lasterhaftigkeit (depravity, viciousness). (various references)

Greek 

ανηθικότησ (immorality, licentiousness, profligateness), ανηθικότητα (bawdiness, immorality, licentiousness, profligateness, vice). (various references)

Hebrew 

פזר� ות (extravagance, munificence, prodigality, squandering), �"וללות (debauchery, foolishness, licentiousness, mirth, naughtiness, unruly conduct), �"פקרות (anarchy, lawlessness, licentiousness, wantonness). (various references)

Hungarian

kicsapongás (crapulence, debauchery, dissipation, excess, lecherousness, licentiousness, toot, vice), feslett élet. (various references)

Italian

licenziosit� (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lack of discipline, libertinism, licence, license, licentiousness), dissolutezza (debauchery, dissoluteness, licentiousness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乱行 (debauchery, dissipation, misconduct, violent conduct), 不身持ち (licentiousness, misconduct), 不行跡 (immorality, misconduct), 不行状 (immorality, misconduct). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふぎょうせき (immorality, misconduct), ふぎょうじょう (immorality, misconduct), ふみもち (licentiousness, misconduct), ら�"ぎょう (debauchery, dissipation, misconduct, violent conduct). (various references)

Manx

rouanys (excess, immorality, lewdness, lust, rioting, riotousness, wantonness). (various references)

Pig Latin

ofligacypray

Portuguese

orgia (bacchanals, debauch, orgy, revel, revelry, riot), licenciosidade (wildness), libertinagem (crapulence, fastness, salacity, vice), devassidão (blackguardism, debauch, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, looseness, orgy, riot, salacity, whoredom), desregramento. (various references)

Romanian

imoralitate (amorality, immorality, licentiousness, nastiness, ordure). (various references)

Russian 

расточительность (extravagance, improvidence, prodigality, wastefulness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskalašnost (abandon, licentiousness), rasipnost (prodigality, profusion). (various references)

Spanish

profusión (profusion), prodigalidad (extravagance, prodigality, wastefulness), libertinaje (debauch, debauchery, lechery, licence, license, licentiousness). (various references)

Swedish

utsvävande liv, slöseri (dissipation, expenditure, extravagance, profusion, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting). (various references)

Turkish

sefahat (debauch, debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, riotous living), hovardalık (dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, rakishness, rascality, riotous living), çapkınlık (debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, lechery, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, rascality, roguery, vice). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещеність (badness, corruption, dissoluteness, naughtiness, perversity, rottenness, salacity), марнотратність (improvidence, prodigality, profusion). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trác táng sự hoang to� ng, sự phóng đãng (riotousness), sự phá của. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: clarify, coalify, glorify, opacify, pyloric.

-4 letters: cagily, calory, caroli, fairly, foliar, frolic, garlic, glairy, gloria, gorily, lorica, orgiac, pacify, picaro, piracy, policy, pylori, pyrola, racily, ropily.

-5 letters: algor, argil, argol, calif, cargo, carol, carpi, cigar, claro, clary, coaly, copal, copra, coral, corgi, coria, fairy, farci, farcy, filar, flair, flora, focal, folia, foray, frail.