unthrift
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Squalor and unthrift abound, and there are no founders of cités ouvrières to make the workman's home what it should be.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
She was extremely poorly dressed, and although she was neat, there was an air of unthrift or discouragement about her dress.
From By The Sea 1887 by Heman White Chaplin
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
Before us is the old town we are seeking,—a type perhaps of the nation itself, in its courtly unthrift, its proud misgovernance.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
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