unthrift

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Squalor and unthrift abound, and there are no founders of cités ouvrières to make the workman's home what it should be.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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.

Whereat, remembering how she had formerly glozed and gilded the entomologist's unthrift, I remarked, one-fourth in play, three-fourths in earnest, "A good plain business man isn't the least noble work of God, after all."

From Strong Hearts by Cable, George Washington

Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

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