unthriftiness

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They have, in consequence, a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters, which, however it may operate to the prejudice of the pocket of the individual, has a mellow and kindly effect upon his disposition.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

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.

Loss of appetite and unthriftiness occur in severe cases.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various