unthriftiness

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What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?

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

The usual symptoms are unthriftiness, indigestion, diarrhoea and a stunted, anaemic condition.

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

It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.

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 worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various