Profligacy

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Profligacy

See also Debauchery, Lust, Promiscuity.

Arrowsmith, Martin

simultaneously engaged to Madeline and Leona. [Am. Lit.: Arrowsmith]

Bellaston, Lady

wealthy profligate; keeps Tom as gigolo. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones]

Booth, Captain

pleasure-loving prodigal; lacks discipline. [Br. Lit.: Amelia]

Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo

(1725–1798) myriad amours made his name synonymous with philanderer. [Ital. Hist.: Benét, 172]

Don Juan

internationally active profligate and seducer. [Span. Lit.: Benét, 279; Ger. Opera: Mozart, Don Giovanni, Wester-man, 93–95]

Flashman, Harry

British soldier wenches his way around world. [Br. Lit.: Flashman]

Genji, Prince

Emperor’s dashing and talented bastard woos many. [Jap. Lit.: The Tale of Genii]

Iachimo

scorns and craftily tests feminine virtue. [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline]

Jones, Tom

manly but all too human young man; has numerous amorous adventures. [Br. Lit.: Tom Jones]

Karamazov, Dmitri

lusty and violent in most of his actions. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov]

Lothario

young rake and seducer. [Br. Lit.: The Fair Penitent]

Lyndon, Barry

from bully to dissipative rake and cruel husband. [Br. Lit.: Barry Lyndon]

Macheath, Captain

gambler and robber; has scores of illegitimate offspring. [Br. Opera: The Beggar’s Opera]

Rake’s Progress, A

Hogarth prints illustrating the headlong career and sorry end of a libertine. [Br. Art: EB (1963) XI, 625]

Santa Cruz, Juanito

loses his wife, lover, and esteem by philandering. [Span. Lit.: Fortunata and Jacinta]

Scales, Gerald

sales representative known for lavish living, gambling, amorality. [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686]

Venusberg

magic land of illicit pleasure where Venus keeps court. [Ger. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 932]

Zeus

supreme of Greek gods; extramarital affairs were count-less. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 292]

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Some good, though, has emerged from such profligacy as the League Managers Association have now adopted Villa as their official charity.

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Although China is often referred to as the primary financier of America's continuing profligacy, that country's total holdings, some $1.16 trillion, represents just a little over seven percent of the U.S.

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The IMF pinpointed two periods of fiscal profligacy in Australia which were both during Mr Howard's term from 1996 to 2007.

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The orderer of the survey, the civic initiative Plostad Sloboda, says the survey is a proof that Skopje 2014 upsets interethnic relations and represents a symbol of profligacy, corruption, and esthetic and historical manipulation.

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Sir Alex Ferguson was clearly not impressed though and his side were nearly made to pay the ultimate price for their profligacy when Michael Carrick bundled Danny Murphy over in the box a minute from time but 27-year-old referee Michael Oliver waved away the penalty claims.

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Too much dilly-dallying cost Beck in another promising position, then the Silkmen almost paid for their profligacy in the 84th minute when Graham Evans' header looked a goal all the way but Adam McGee pulled off a fantastic save to secure a deserved away success.

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Last night, he must have been in despair as Norwich took a leaf out of United's book by making the Merseysiders pay for their profligacy in front of goal.

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Emma Boon of the Taxpayers Alliance said: "This is yet another example of BBC profligacy. Instead of pleading poverty, they should cut out spending like this."