unthriftiness

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What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?

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

The loss due to the damage to the fleece is usually greater than that resulting from unthriftiness.

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

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.

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 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