unthrift

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So it is—idleness, unthrift, and bad farming generally, degrading it far below its possibilities and natural standard of production.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

C. The factory system is productive of intemperance, unthrift, and poverty.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen

I am still a devotee of the homely primitive doctrine that mischance, disability or even unthrift, is not a capital crime justly and profitably punishable by starvation.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

Meanwhile to spend all our sympathy on men who reduce themselves and others to poverty by idleness and unthrift, seems rather a bad investment of emotion.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

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

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