unthrift

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Terrible as are the results of drunkenness, impurity, unthrift, idleness, disregard of sanitary rules, it is not possible, looking fairly at the facts, to regard these as the main sources of poverty.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

Everywhere were visible tokens of that miserly thrift which, carried to excess, degenerates into unthrift of the worst and meanest kind, from which the transition to absolute ruin is both easy and certain.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance He lay, content that unthrift Circumstance Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Those dearly loved friends should not again look upon the unthrift younker; and unless the man redeemed the courses wild of the youth, he would no more return.

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

Thou careless unthrift, ill-luck follows i' thy wake.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John