unthriftiness
Example Sentences
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They have, in consequence, a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters, which, however it may operate to the prejudice of the pocket of the individual, has a mellow and kindly effect upon his disposition.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
The symptoms are rather vague as a rule, but the general result is a condition of unthriftiness.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Stiles reported extreme anaemia, unthriftiness and many deaths among cattle in a certain section of Texas, due to extensive infection with the Uncinaria radialus.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
This results in unthriftiness caused by imperfect digestion and assimilation of the feed.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
The usual symptoms are unthriftiness, indigestion, diarrhoea and a stunted, anaemic condition.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
