improvident

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Jon Provost played Timmy, a well-intentioned but improvident child who often finds himself in life-threatening situations that require Lassie to alert his folks and guide them to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

If you should be so improvident as to kick it hard, the engine will come to full strength at the speed of thought.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

If Alice’s hair is her one extravagance, her one deceptively whimsical ornament, Frank Banning—Mimi’s 9-year-old son—is all improvident display.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2016

One can at least sympathize with their reluctance to run what looks like a giant charity for improvident fellow Europeans.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

Indeed, it has become a subject of complaint, that access is so easy, and the position so agreeable, that the improvident and the indolent take undue advantage of its benefits.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.