A life characterized by thriftlessness and waste. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Instead, they moralized endlessly on the perils of indolence, time-wasting and thriftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Founding Fathers] Reference
Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
Here is needless poverty in the lap of potential wealth, thriftlessness in the face of every seeming stimulus to diligence. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889] Reference
Could Creole thriftlessness have been abolished and the slave trade retained, the ruin of the estates might have been averted. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
She penetrated the homes of the cottagers, she tasted of their foods, she rated them on uncleanliness, drunkenness, and thriftlessness; she lectured them on cooking. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
It hid itself away in the woods from very shame of its thriftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [David Malcolm] Reference
To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
It provides many honest pleasures, of which thriftlessness and extravagance deprive us. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
C.W., on thriftlessness on Savings Banks and Post Office Savings Banks sketch of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
She lived in a chronic state of wonder over the laziness, the thriftlessness, and the dirt of. From Wordnik.com. [Good Old Anna] Reference
The intense selfishness, thriftlessness, and folly of these highly paid operatives, is scarcely credible. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
It is not drink, nor thriftlessness, nor immorality, as the philanthropists do vainly talk; still less is it crime. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
"Ah, sir, it often takes the energy of generations to repair the thriftlessness and extravagance of a single owner.". From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
He never could be made to feel that by these spontaneous generosities he was encouraging thriftlessness and mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization] Reference
Lincoln to extricate him from some pecuniary strait into which he had fallen through his confirmed thriftlessness and improvidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him] Reference
An insurance policy has often changed the habits of an entire family from thriftlessness and spendthrift tendencies to thrift and order. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
These are ignorance and vice and thriftlessness, which, like their opposite virtues, are not confined to a particular race, but beset humanity in general. From Wordnik.com. [Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895.] Reference
"Are you afraid of growing ugly that you are saving money?" was a speech of Florine's to Mariette, which may give a clue to one cause of this thriftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
They have no direct personal motive for exercising prudence and economy, and they have no experience of the evils that result from thriftlessness and prodigality. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Paris] Reference
The son of the soil in France may want carpets, wardrobes, clean swept hearths: he at least owns a home from which only imprudence or thriftlessness can eject him. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
In truth, as to both, care and economy will increase your means for their accomplishment, inasmuch as waste and thriftlessness will diminish your ability for either. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother] Reference
The warfare with Spain, the lack of adequate skilled labour, and the general thriftlessness of the colonists made the cultivation of such products practically impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Sidney, you remember that man we once went to hear lecture, the man that talked of nothing but the thriftlessness of the poor, and how it was their own fault they suffered?. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Many are crowded on the outskirts of the towns and villages North and South, in wretched thriftlessness and squalor, yet content and without ambition to alter their condition. From Wordnik.com. [A girl's life in Virginia before the war,] Reference
He was the incarnation of thriftlessness; with no polish of manner, no idea of business, or order, or of the necessity of paying a debt, but he was also the incarnation of music!. From Wordnik.com. [My day : reminiscences of a long life,] Reference
"authoritative institutions … setting cultural norms" that encourage thriftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Crosswalk.com - Home] Reference
Chadwick, Edwin, sketch of his life his Sanitary Idea and Poor Law Inquiry and the Sanitary Movement and General Board of Health on thriftlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
His thriftlessness was disgraceful. From Wordnik.com. [A Sort of Pilgrim] Reference
Oh, thriftlessness of dream and guess!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Page 145 thriftlessness and mendicancy. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization] Reference
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