(the virtue whose opposite is "improvidence" or being a spendthrift) as not real virtues at all because they benefit only their possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Virtue Ethics] Reference
Spanish improvidence! — to be so damp that it was useless. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Poverty springs from two causes -- improvidence, a lack of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The very improvidence of the negroes stimulates their industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
London and his father's improvidence plunged them into misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Thrift was a visible virtue, in contrast to Georgiana's improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
The improvidence of Lady Blessington, however, was in no respect diminished. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
The same improvidence is visible in many towns in France, and still more in Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
“Okay,” I reply, one eyebrow arched high in facial criticism of his improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in the Life of an Extremely Minor Playwright] Reference
The improvidence of early marriage rarely occurred in former days, and palpably, if our. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850] Reference
On the other hand, his poverty and improvidence constantly kept him, as Lady Mary put it. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Vile raiment may be, often is, the result of indolence, or improvidence, or extravagance. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
She kept them secret from her father, whose improvidence was the cause of much of her misery. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
"All this savors too much of the future and is out of place in the happy improvidence of the present.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Then the thrift of some and the improvidence of others set in motion the immutable laws of distribution. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
To give alms indiscriminately, in these circumstances, is both to waste means and propagate improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
With the courage of his recently acquired situation, Dennis proposed to indulge in a little improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Rather it gives one the impression that old traditions are all but dead and that it is mere improvidence and. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
People hate to pay the bills for other people's improvidence, and they detest having to do so for rich people. From Wordnik.com. [A Lonely Success] Reference
There was nothing for him to do -- thanks to the improvidence of John Locke no business connected with the trust. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
The Arabs themselves being on foot would have suffered much more than I from the consequences of their improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [Eothen] Reference
"With the sum thus realized, I say, you propose to make good the losses which the bank has suffered by your improvidence?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
I weep bitter tears for my unpardonable improvidence in having accepted these things without giving so much as a thought to your welfare. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
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