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is profligacy
noun
Careless wastefulness.
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The group, which campaigns for better use of public funds, said last week that: "Spending £250,000 on a whim because [the BBC] wants a better view is profligacy of the highest degree".
While the excess is profligacy, deficiency in respect of pleasures almost never occurs.
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Belgium's main problem recently has been profligacy.
It was profligacy which cost them a victory.
It was profligacy, a lack of "cutting edge" according to Puel, which saw them survive.
This month a handful of protesters stormed a hotel in the centre of Harare protesting against the vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko's stay there since December 2014, saying this was profligacy by a government that claims it has no money.
Lax defending was a major theme of the match, as was profligacy in front of goal.
That is a profligacy the world can manage without.The obvious answer is to cut the cables and go wireless.
Encasing the entire underside of the bridge in cupro-nickel then throwing it into a tidal river is sheer profligacy.
Indeed it is the profligacy and pollution of America's miracle economy that preoccupies Philip Shabecoff, for many years a writer on the environment for the New York Times.
The larger problem that "Graduation" speaks to is the profligacy of fictioneering, which applies as much to literature as it does to film.
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