unthrift

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Gesticulating, his voice rising into a senile scream, he upbraided me for folly, extravagance, unthrift and prodigality.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

Yet, notwithstanding proverb or prophecy, the widow's goods were in no danger from unthrift.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

But the ordinances for relief and the ordinances for labour must go together; otherwise distress caused by misfortune will always be168 confounded, as it is now, with distress caused by idleness, unthrift, and fraud.

From A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) by Ruskin, John

There'll be smashing work anon, for look you, yonder's my wild slip of a sometime-clerk, John Shakespeare's unthrift son.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington