unthrift

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There'll be smashing work anon, for look you, yonder's my wild slip of a sometime-clerk, John Shakespeare's unthrift son.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Everywhere were visible tokens of that miserly thrift which, carried to excess, degenerates into unthrift of the worst and meanest kind, from which the transition to absolute ruin is both easy and certain.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

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

She was extremely poorly dressed, and although she was neat, there was an air of unthrift or discouragement about her dress.

From By The Sea 1887 by Chaplin, Heman White

Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney