unthrift

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But the ordinances for relief and the ordinances for labour must go together; otherwise distress caused by misfortune will always be confounded, as it is now, with distress caused by idleness, unthrift, and fraud.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

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)

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

For douteles, to doon his wo to falle, 430 He roughte not what unthrift that he seyde.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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 Ruskin, John