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Meanings of profligacy in inglés
portugués
devassidão catalán
llibertinatge Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
catalán
prodigalitat Synonyms
Examples for "excess"
Examples for "excess"
1
Indeed, authorities are using banks' excess capital to help cushion the shock.
2
VW said excess diesel emissions impact up to 11 million vehicles worldwide.
3
Remove excess clutter throughout the house, ensuring all shelving areas are clear.
4
Demand is expected to remain strong as excess capital seeks high-quality paper.
5
English Premiership strugglers Sunderland announced debts in excess of £25 million today.
1
Exactly follow the dissolution notification procedures set forth in your state statutes.
2
Several courts are looking into cases demanding the dissolution of both bodies.
3
The dissolution paves the way for a snap election by late January.
4
And the empires of to-day have the seed of dissolution in them.
5
The effect of the victory was the dissolution of the Latin league.
1
Serious Materials' QuietHome doors seek to put the kibosh on sound dissipation.
2
The proximity of horse-racing establishments adds to the general atmosphere of dissipation.
3
In the chief cities of the cantons, debauchery and dissipation were rife.
4
He omits his regular training and indulges in all kinds of dissipation.
5
That duty may be a hobby; it may even be a dissipation.
1
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
2
The reign of Charles II was pre-eminently distinguished for licentiousness and debauchery.
3
By relaxing all discipline he introduced disorder and licentiousness thro the colony.
4
But surely it should rather be called a preventive of English licentiousness.
5
Never was such licentiousness of description united to such delicacy of colouring.
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Normand, by contrast, had an on-screen looseness that still feels strikingly modern.
2
She wondered at his words, their rambling nature; their looseness in this moment.
3
There was some looseness and some great opportunities, Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said.
4
And the looseness on which you comment, recollect, is all in your favor.
5
He died nine days ago, of a looseness of the bowels.
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It's not lechery, she's writing to me because we fell in love.
2
His fame had rested on lechery, alcoholism, reckless driving, and draft evasion.
3
But if she married someone poor, like Andrew, it was obviously lechery.
4
Nor pale Religion's lechery call that virginity that wishes but acts not!
5
Who's that to speak of lechery when he's too old to remember it?'
Usage of profligacy in inglés
1
Yet we have created a transport system whose design principle is profligacy.
2
The ancient historians invariably note the profligacy of the inhabitants of Byzantium.
3
The friend and servant of Antichrist, his copartner in crime and profligacy.
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Do not think that this means debauchery and profligacy; nothing like it.
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The home side's profligacy continued as Mabkhout lashed wide from point-blank range.
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It represented, in short, the very profligacy and abandon of unbounded wealth.
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The tendency of the slave-owner is always toward profligacy and conspicuous waste.
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That profligacy was shown in a stark light in the 69th minute.
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Even the cynical profligacy of Ovid shows more capacity for true love.
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As it transpired, they would end up grateful for Murray's uncharacteristic profligacy.
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And hence the downward career into stupid indifferentism, even into Antinomian profligacy.
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His neglected and unrestrained youth was abandoned to license and to profligacy.
13
Danny Rose made Liverpool pay for their profligacy with a 72nd-minute equaliser.
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Asellus, said: If you elect to defend your profligacy, well and good.
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In fact, the profligacy of umbrellas can work the other way.
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Immediate fiscal contraction led to greater profligacy and more pain ahead.
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