unthrift

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Everywhere were visible tokens of that miserly thrift which, carried to excess, degenerates into unthrift of the worst and meanest kind, from which the transition to absolute ruin is both easy and certain.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

C. The factory system is productive of intemperance, unthrift, and poverty.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen

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

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

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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