unthrift

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Wonder why Shakespeare looked ahead and harpooned me with that word unthrift.

From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre

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)

If the Home was a place of punishment for the sin of unthrift the veteran offenders sought justice with a persistence that attested the sincerity of their penitence.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

But the ordinances for relief and the ordinances for labour must go together; otherwise distress caused by misfortune will always be168 confounded, as it is now, with distress caused by idleness, unthrift, and fraud.

From A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) by Ruskin, John

I found myself in what was evidently an artist's studio, but every object in it bore indubitable signs of unthrift and neglect.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)