improvidence
Example Sentences
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Two key factors in the SVB disaster can’t be overlooked: The incompetence of the bank’s management and the improvidence of its customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
He said he would turn the national lottery into a kind of savings-and-loan association to cure the "improvidence" of the Cuban people.
From Time Magazine Archive
But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The executors, he found, had acted with "improvidence and waste verging upon gross negligence."
From Time Magazine Archive
It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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