improvident

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Jon Provost played Timmy, a well-intentioned but improvident child who often finds himself in life-threatening situations that require Lassie to alert his folks and guide them to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025

If you should be so improvident as to kick it hard, the engine will come to full strength at the speed of thought.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

She did quit her job to take care of him, but they were improvident and did not buy long-term care insurance.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

If Alice’s hair is her one extravagance, her one deceptively whimsical ornament, Frank Banning—Mimi’s 9-year-old son—is all improvident display.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2016

Simple humanity requires that the state should not be blind to the movement of emigration, nor abandon it to all the risks of improvident liberty.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm