unthrift

In the larger villages there are comfortable and even substantial residences, but the impression of unthrift is associated with the proper population.

I have often found, on landing at some villages of this latter class, that the dwellings and business blocks which, riverward, are sad spectacles of foulness and unthrift, have quite pretentious fronts along the land highway which the townsfolk patronize.

Yet, notwithstanding proverb or prophecy, the widow's goods were in no danger from unthrift.

There is for the most part a great overgrowth and overrunning of the least desirable elements, a general air of slovenliness and unthrift.

The muck, the mire, the griefs, the crimes, the unthrift, the desolation, have given sombre tint to his village pictures; perhaps those shore people resent it; perhaps he is incapable of the cheeriness which should brighten charity; at any rate he goes away under private preferment to a private chaplaincy at Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland.