unthrift

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Yet, notwithstanding proverb or prophecy, the widow's goods were in no danger from unthrift.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

I found myself in what was evidently an artist's studio, but every object in it bore indubitable signs of unthrift and neglect.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)

I am still a devotee of the homely primitive doctrine that mischance, disability or even unthrift, is not a capital crime justly and profitably punishable by starvation.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington

Squalor and unthrift abound, and there are no founders of cités ouvrières to make the workman's home what it should be.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda