unthrift
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If any good chaplain failed to “improve the occasion” let us hope that he lived to lament in sack-cloth-of-gold and ashes-of-roses his intellectual unthrift.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Ambrose Bierce
But the ordinances for relief and the ordinances for labour must go together; otherwise distress caused by misfortune will always be168 confounded, as it is now, with distress caused by idleness, unthrift, and fraud.
From A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) by John Ruskin
For douteles, to doon his wo to falle, 430 He roughte not what unthrift that he seyde.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
Thou careless unthrift, ill-luck follows i' thy wake.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
He mentions as a mark of the general unthrift that the day he arrived there was no bread in town until two o'clock in the afternoon, "and no one was astonished at it."
From Castilian Days by John Hay
