Definition of "profligateness" []

• The state or condition of being profligate; wastefulness. (noun)

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• "Lord W. began it with a complaint of the inso-lence and profligateness of servants."
• "From this danger he narrowly escaped, by means of his general good character, and remarkable inoffen-siveness, and the profligateness of his accusers: nor knew he his danger till many months afterwards."
• "Lord W---- began it with a complaint of the insolence and profligateness of servants."