unthriftiness

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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)

What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?

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

This results in unthriftiness caused by imperfect digestion and assimilation of the feed.

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

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.

The symptoms occasioned by it are rather obscure and are such as might arise from a number of other causes, namely, colicky pains, depraved appetite, diarrhea or constipation, and general unthriftiness.

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