unthrift

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Yet, notwithstanding proverb or prophecy, the widow's goods were in no danger from unthrift.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

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

Those dearly loved friends should not again look upon the unthrift younker; and unless the man redeemed the courses wild of the youth, he would no more return.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Through unthrift and extravagance he had failed to lay by any store from his earnings; he had wasted his own and his lord's substance.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey