Profligacy – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘profligacy’.

The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.

No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form. 

It means:
1. Extravagance
2. License
3. Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources
4. Licentious or dissolute behaviour

1. Slavery left its blight of impotency and profligacy upon them.
2. I will not submit to be ruined by the extravagance and profligacy of any man.
3. You look in vain for any outward signs of profligacy or debauchery.
4. The government returned to fiscal profligacy.
5. Wastefulness, profligacy, or favouritism in public expenditures is criminal.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
recklessness, absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagance, folly, frill, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overindulgence, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, squandering, superfluity, unrestraint, waste, wastefulness, wildness, the icing on the cake, overdoing, overspending, preposterousness, squander, unreasonableness, unthrift, irresponsibility, anarchy, animalism, arrogance, audacity, boldness, complacency, debauchery, disorder, dissoluteness, dissolution, effrontery, forwardness, gluttony, immoderation, impropriety, lawlessness, laxity, licentiousness, looseness, presumptuousness, refractoriness, relaxation, sauciness, self-indulgence, sensuality, slackness, temerity, unrestraint, unruliness, wantonness, wildness, libertinism, relaxedness etc.

care, caution, cowardice, humility, meekness, modesty, order