unthrift

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Wonder why Shakespeare looked ahead and harpooned me with that word unthrift.

From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre

If the Home was a place of punishment for the sin of unthrift the veteran offenders sought justice with a persistence that attested the sincerity of their penitence.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

C. The factory system is productive of intemperance, unthrift, and poverty.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen

She was extremely poorly dressed, and although she was neat, there was an air of unthrift or discouragement about her dress.

From By The Sea 1887 by Chaplin, Heman White

Neither know I where that unthrift William is these two days.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various