unthriftiness

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The irritation and loss of blood that the animal may suffer when badly infested by this parasite may result in marked unthriftiness.

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

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

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 symptoms are rather vague as a rule, but the general result is a condition of unthriftiness.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Stiles reported extreme anaemia, unthriftiness and many deaths among cattle in a certain section of Texas, due to extensive infection with the Uncinaria radialus.

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