unthrift

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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

Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance He lay, content that unthrift Circumstance Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

He mentions as a mark of the general unthrift that the day he arrived there was no bread in town until two o'clock in the afternoon, "and no one was astonished at it."

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

Thou careless unthrift, ill-luck follows i' thy wake.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

Terrible as are the results of drunkenness, impurity, unthrift, idleness, disregard of sanitary rules, it is not possible, looking fairly at the facts, to regard these as the main sources of poverty.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)