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Unthriftiness

Unthriftiness \Un*thrift"i*ness\, n. The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness.
--Udall.

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unthriftiness

n. The quality of being unthrifty.

Usage examples of "unthriftiness".

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.

I seen men go forth in their madness and unthriftiness, and waste the hours of grace and of the sun, rendering to idleness and wantonness and vain sport and pleasure the sum of all they owe to God and to man.