profligacy

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈpɹɑflɪɡəsi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Careless wastefulness. countable
    — No question has arisen within the records of history that pressed with the importance of the present.[…]whether man shall inherit his rights, and universal civilisation take place? Whether the fruits of his labours shall be enjoyed by himself or consumed by the profligacy of governments?
  2. Shameless and immoral behaviour. uncountable
    — He had, indeed, reduced several women to a state of utter profligacy, had broke the hearts of some, and had the honour of occasioning the violent death of one poor girl, who had either drowned herself, or, what was rather more probable, had been drowned by him.

词形变化

profligacies plural

词汇关系

近义词
carrying-on Corinthianism knavery profligacy rakehood vice
反义词
virtue
上位词
improbity
相关词
immoral

词源

From proflig(ate) + -acy (with -acy a suffixal construction from -ate + -cy), from Latin prōflīgātus, past participle of Latin prōflīgō, from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) (whence pro-).
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