improvidence

This, I may say in passing, accounts for the common tar's improvidence.

You will, I hope, think none the less of us for this improvidence.'

Subsistence incomes force the poor into improvidence - they're never able to save, or plan their purchases.

Here was another illustration of the childlike improvidence of this age and people.

And you know what their improvidence is, ma'am.

The story has been used to teach the virtues of hard work and the perils of improvidence.

Although devoted to his father's memory he always resented his extravagance and improvidence.

He claimed poverty in many instances was caused by habitual improvidence:

But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence.

His improvidence, extreme views, and intractable disposition made his life a troubled one.

It doesn't make things easier that their recent, inexplicable improvidence with the man advantage has occurred in front of friends and fans at the Garden.

The improvidence of it shocked him.

He is said to have been singularly handsome, with an exceedingly fair complexion; generous, even to the point of improvidence.

Sometimes he sounds like German politicians just now, raging at the improvidence of others, while imposing ruinous remedies on them.

I bitterly repented our improvidence in not providing ourselves, as we easily might have done, with a supply of biscuit.

Goreans do not see fit to reward improvidence.

I struck several matches in succession, and desperately regretted the improvidence which had caused us long ago to use up the few candles we carried.

Underground) he rasped harshly at his improvidence.

It's just the improvidence of youth."

Crosfield campaigned against intemperance, improvidence, and vice.

No doubt the grand-old Victorian would have reprimanded us for our thriftlessness, extravagance and improvidence.

In return for his brutality, his raging and incondign improvidence, they had kept him alive, given him purpose.

The warmly shrouded monk has been out gathering alms and may be supposed to be giving the musician a lecture on his improvidence.

Against such incurable improvidence, and such little regard for strict equity in money dealings, nothing but the impersonality of a syndicate could stand.

The clothes are from thrift shops.3 It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.