unthrift

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Meanwhile to spend all our sympathy on men who reduce themselves and others to poverty by idleness and unthrift, seems rather a bad investment of emotion.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

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

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

Of Irish stagnation, Irish unthrift, Irish destitution, Irish misery, the world has heard enough.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace

Before us is the old town we are seeking,—a type perhaps of the nation itself, in its courtly unthrift, its proud misgovernance.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

But those who rail against "the competitive system," and think they suffer from it, really suffer from their own unthrift and incapacity.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose