unthrift

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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)

Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

But the ordinances for relief and the ordinances for labour must go together; otherwise distress caused by misfortune will always be168 confounded, as it is now, with distress caused by idleness, unthrift, and fraud.

From A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) by Ruskin, John

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

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

There is for the most part a great overgrowth and overrunning of the least desirable elements, a general air of slovenliness and unthrift.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward