improvidence
Example Sentences
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Two key factors in the SVB disaster can’t be overlooked: The incompetence of the bank’s management and the improvidence of its customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Alan Sergeant San Diego Your article "What Are Prisons For?" lays bare the improvidence of our attitude toward criminal justice.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said he would turn the national lottery into a kind of savings-and-loan association to cure the "improvidence" of the Cuban people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Egoism mastered diffidence, countered improvidence with "confidence in my strength and cleverness," and channeled all energies into the prolific output of well-made novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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