Though his profligacy therefore was coarser than that of Erpingham, and though his lordship was not over gifted with sensibility, yet he was not so entirely and systematically heartless.
Shameless in conduct, they spread vice and demoralization among the lower classes, secure in the respect which is felt for their profession, that they may engage in a course of profligacy without any risk of exposure.
Like most of their equals, they unite superstition and profligacyin their character.
His nephew, however, had some positive good, and not a little of that light and reckless profligacywhich is often mistaken for heart and spirit.
To procure the promotion of a man who can deliberately avow his participation in such shameless profligacy would be to identify myself with it.
Miss Clinton felt a good deal embarrassed by the easy profligacy that was expressed in these sentiments, and she made an effort to change the subject.
Was it relief, that I spent the day in the midst of profligacy and execrations--that I saw reflected from every countenance agonies only inferior to my own?
The general tenor of the poem complains that in these days true learning, genius, and the honesty of authorship are of no account; whilst the political profligacy of the pen ensures favour and pay.
The lofty spirit and generous passions of chivalry; the stern resolves and heroic resolution of ancient patriotism; the graceful profligacy and studied gallantry of the court of Louis XIV.
The hypocrisy, impudence, and profligacy of these clerical wanderers, had made them the subject of satire from the time of Chaucer down to that of Heywood.
It seems to me that the profligacy of the Catholic clergy has brought this judgment on their own heads, and, for aught I know, it may be for their reformation.
Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
The eldest son was only fourteen, and was a young fellow of charming manners, but evidently extremely independent, and sighed for the time when he would be able to devote himself to a career of profligacy for which he was well fitted.
Witness the rapid and general corruption of the higher ranks, when they get away from such restraint, amidst the profligacy of New South Wales.
There is certain degree of truth in these observations; but they are much exaggerated, and it is not in these causes that the principal sources of the profligacy of the manufacturing districts is to be found.
Bath is become a mere sink of profligacy and extortion.
Jewish panic and profligacy almost prevented the Divine purpose, and Isaiah went near to breaking his heart over the city, for whose redemption he had travailed for a lifetime.
Jerusalem, and once by the prophet's sentence of death upon the inhabitants in the hour of their profligacy (xxii.
I often felt rejoiced in spirit in the prospect of doing good amidst the wild profligacy of manners that surrounded me, and of making known the doctrines and precepts of Christianity, where Christ had never before been named.
In the legends of the British Druids we are told that it was "the profligacy of mankind" that caused God to send the great disaster.
How strikingly does this remind one of the Druid legend, given on page 135, ante: "The profligacy of mankind had provoked the Great Supreme to send a pestilential wind upon the earth.
The traditions of the ancient Britons[1] tell us of an ancient time, when "The profligacy of mankind had provoked the great Supreme to send a pestilential wind upon the earth.
I do not wish, however, to trace the course of my miserable profligacy here--a profligacy which set at defiance the laws, while it eluded the vigilance of the institution.
The profligacy of Louis-Quatorze had been palliated by his passion for splendour, among a dissolute people who loved splendour much, and hated profligacy little.
He ought to have said, that the whole was owing to the mingled treachery and profligacy which made the nation loathe the characters of public parties and public men.
Wilkes' profligacy alone, perhaps, saved the constitution from a shock, which might have changed the whole system of the empire.
These signal judgments of Jehovah were preceded by great profligacy of manners, and its fruitful parent, licentiousness of principle.
The scenes of profligacyand vice which everywhere presented themselves burdened his heart, and he became anxious to be actively employed in removing evil and doing good.
Profligacy and irreligion were reputable and respectable.
Rodrigo, "the last of the Goths," lived a life of such flagrantprofligacy that the coming of the Moors was but just punishment for all his sins.
English profligacy is always coarse, and in profligacy nothing is more contagious than its tone.
But neither public calamities, nor the sorrow and indignation of all good men, including his most loyal and attached adherents, could check the shameless profligacy of his palace-life.
On account of the profligacy of her husband, there was a strong sympathy with her, although she was a coarse-minded woman.
Profligacy among the people continued to an amazing degree.
Dismayed at the profligacy and carelessness he saw everywhere around him, he was evidently convinced that not fear only, but some overwhelming terror was absolutely necessary for even the tolerable restraint of human sin and passion.
It was mainly instrumental in effecting the conversion from profligacy to piety of the once famous Psalmanazar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profligacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
