1. reckless extravagance or wasteful spending
2. immoral or dissolute behavior
Usage: formal

Examples

• The company’s financial profligacy led to bankruptcy within two years.
• Critics condemned the government’s profligacy with taxpayer money.
• His profligacy at the casino cost him his entire inheritance.
• The novel depicts the profligacy of the wealthy elite during the Gilded Age.
• She was shocked by her brother’s profligacy and moral decline.
• The king’s profligacy eventually sparked a revolution among his subjects.