So the city is saddled with the contradiction that it cannot stop its profligacy.
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
Is there any room in this kind of agriculture for contamination, destruction, and profligacy?
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
To the Britons, simple in their tastes and habits, this profusion of luxury, this universal profligacy seemed absolutely monstrous.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty