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Thriftlessness

noun
1.
The trait of wasting resources.  Synonyms: waste, wastefulness.  "The wastefulness of missed opportunities"






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"Thriftlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... no regular set ways about her, but worked unceasingly from morning till night in every department in the house. Not a week passed before I heard Biddy, with her Irish enthusiasm, calling on Heaven to bless the "darlint." She was always ready to excuse Biddy's thriftlessness and Ike's mischief, helping them on in their duties constantly. Good Lizzie Hall! every one in the house loved her. Yes, indeed, my dear housekeeping reader, all doubtful as you look, I had at last ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... under his instructions. In the result the boy quadrupled the number of bushels of corn to the acre that his father, following the traditional methods, was able to raise. It would be easy to multiply such instances of thriftlessness and neglected opportunity, of poverty within easy reach of abundance, which have brought it about that the future of the nation is actually endangered by the failure of the food supply to keep pace with the increase of its still relatively ...
— The Rural Life Problem of the United States - Notes of an Irish Observer • Horace Curzon Plunkett



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