profligacy

  • 21Nicomachean Ethics — Part of a series on Aristotle …

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  • 22evil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Immorality Nouns 1. (something evil) evil, ill, harm, hurt; mischief, nuisance; disadvantage, drawback; disaster, casualty, mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, adversity; abomination,… …

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  • 23license — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. permission, authority; freedom, licentiousness. See impurity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Unbridled use of freedom] Syn. looseness, excess, laxity, slackness, relaxedness, effrontery, arrogance, sauciness …

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  • 24prodigality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. profligacy, waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance, squandering; excess, lavishness; liberality. See sufficiency. Ant., economy. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Affluence] Syn. money, profusion,… …

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  • 25debauchery — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Dissipation] Syn. intemperance, carousal, revelry, profligacy; see indulgence 3 . 2. [Seduction] Syn. lasciviousness, lechery, libertinism; see deSire 3 , lewdness . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [di BAW …

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  • 26extravagance — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lavishness, excessive expenditure, improvidence; see indulgence 3 , waste 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. indulgence, excessiveness, lavishness, wastefulness, excess, immoderation, prodigality, frill, *overkill,… …

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  • 27Vice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vice vice Sgm: N 1 evil doing evil doing evil courses Sgm: N 1 wrongdoing wrongdoing Sgm: N 1 wickedness wickedness viciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 iniquity …

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  • 28Profligateness — Prof li*gate*ness, n. The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 29Simoniacal — Sim o*ni a*cal, a. Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony. {Sim o*ni a*cal*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J. S. Harford …

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  • 30Simoniacally — Simoniacal Sim o*ni a*cal, a. Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony. {Sim o*ni a*cal*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J.… …

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