unthrift

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Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance He lay, content that unthrift Circumstance Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

An unpainted barn advertises the unthrift of the owner, and the roof is always leaky.

From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith

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

Those dearly loved friends should not again look upon the unthrift younker; and unless the man redeemed the courses wild of the youth, he would no more return.

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

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