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

Of Irish stagnation, Irish unthrift, Irish destitution, Irish misery, the world has heard enough.

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace

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

There is for the most part a great overgrowth and overrunning of the least desirable elements, a general air of slovenliness and unthrift.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward

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