unthriftiness

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Twice the public subscribed for his needs, and once, the old unthriftiness about him still, he flung away his capital and was royally penniless again.

From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.

The loss due to the damage to the fleece is usually greater than that resulting from unthriftiness.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

They have, in consequence, a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters, which, however it may operate to the prejudice of the pocket of the individual, has a mellow and kindly effect upon his disposition.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

The irritation and loss of blood that the animal may suffer when badly infested by this parasite may result in marked unthriftiness.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew