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Recent Examples of profligacy Jesus’ injury history and Havertz’s profligacy are concerns and both came to the fore during their FA Cup exit against Manchester United on Sunday. James McNicholas, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025 Post-match, head coach Julen Lopetegui lamented West Ham’s profligacy. Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 For decades, the leaders of both parties had tolerated mind-boggling levels of corruption, waste, and administrative bloat, enabling a culture of profligacy that subsidized the federal bureaucracy and crony capitalists at the expense of hard-working American taxpayers. Michael Glassner and John Pence, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024 Defense spending that grows and grows without substantive reforms and allows a department that has never passed an audit to perpetuate its profligacy. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for profligacy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profligacy
Noun
  • Boland states that a comprehensive charter is needed to address Chicago’s continuing climate of political corruption.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Blatter, 89, and Platini, 69, had been facing a charge of corruption at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court before being cleared, according to a statement to The Athletic from their lawyer, having previously been cleared of fraud more than two years ago.
    Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Now, more than two years after the Evros Thirty-eight made landfall on the islet, Little Maria is practically a household name, synonymous with refugees’ immorality and the malfeasance of NGOs and journalists.
    Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • At its core, moral outrage is a response to the feeling that others are acting immorally and that their immorality is destroying society.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With that said, the overall dearth of humor is a more damning sin.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In a change election resulting in the closest popular vote since 2000, hypocrisy was a fatal sin.
    Rob Richie, Twin Cities, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Eddie Barrish, the financially desperate, hapless criminal in this high-concept thriller, is played by Bill Skarsgard, who for once is on the receiving end of evil.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Givens is an old-fashioned hero in a modern world, dealing with the forces of evil in his corner of Eastern Kentucky, particularly one tough guy played unforgettably by Walton Goggins.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025

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