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
No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51.
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
Last week certain of his Chicago friends decided that they could at least overcome his improvidence.
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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