unthrift

Example Sentences

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An unpainted barn advertises the unthrift of the owner, and the roof is always leaky.

From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith

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 Bierce, Ambrose

Meanwhile to spend all our sympathy on men who reduce themselves and others to poverty by idleness and unthrift, seems rather a bad investment of emotion.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

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 Chaplin, Heman White

Whole regions in our country suffer in this way from unthrift, whatever the price of farm products or of lands.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson