unthriftiness

Example Sentences

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The symptoms are rather vague as a rule, but the general result is a condition of unthriftiness.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Twice the public subscribed for his needs, and once, the old unthriftiness about him still, he flung away his capital and was royally penniless again.

From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.

The symptoms occasioned by it are rather obscure and are such as might arise from a number of other causes, namely, colicky pains, depraved appetite, diarrhea or constipation, and general unthriftiness.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.