unthrift
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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)
So it is—idleness, unthrift, and bad farming generally, degrading it far below its possibilities and natural standard of production.
From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
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
