profligacy
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But the nonvirtuous road, Smith warns, risks ruin: “habitual imprudence . . . or injustice, or weakness, or profligacy, will always cloud, and sometimes depress altogether, the most splendid professional abilities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Long-dated yields have been climbing amid a toxic mix of fiscal profligacy, a capital spending boom for the ages in artificial intelligence and geopolitical pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That profligacy in front of goal has been matched by defensive issues, with Chelsea conceding the opening goal in four consecutive Premier League games for the first time since November 2023.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has publicly and privately highlighted the eye-watering £375,000-a-week wages paid to the Brazilian as an example of the profligacy that predated his arrival.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
The rope received the flame greedily; the transports of greed were succeeded by the profligacy of utmost generosity; and soon the whole store partook.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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