unthrift

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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

There'll be smashing work anon, for look you, yonder's my wild slip of a sometime-clerk, John Shakespeare's unthrift son.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

He mentions as a mark of the general unthrift that the day he arrived there was no bread in town until two o'clock in the afternoon, "and no one was astonished at it."

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

Through unthrift and extravagance he had failed to lay by any store from his earnings; he had wasted his own and his lord's substance.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

Gesticulating, his voice rising into a senile scream, he upbraided me for folly, extravagance, unthrift and prodigality.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas