thriftlessness

Instead, they moralized endlessly on the perils of indolence, time-wasting and thriftlessness.

Founding Fathers

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.

The Shape of Things to Come

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.

The Imaginary Marriage

Could Creole thriftlessness have been abolished and the slave trade retained, the ruin of the estates might have been averted.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

We have not the slightest sympathy with that socialistic idea which would try to put laziness, thriftlessness and inefficiency on a par with industry, thrift and efficiency; which would strive to break up not merely private property, but what is far more important, the home, the chief prop upon which our whole civilization stands.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001)

The unfortunate wretches, the victims of drink, crime, or thriftlessness, who inhabited such places, were not turned away to seek a fouler footing elsewhere, but were taken in hand by the working-men on the committee, and were started afresh in life with every encouragement.

The Dominion in 1983

Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb.

Judith of the Plains

There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Here is needless poverty in the lap of potential wealth, thriftlessness in the face of every seeming stimulus to diligence.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889

The individual or the group, which through ignorance or inefficiency or thriftlessness or racial discrimination is incapacitated for measuring up to the demands of an aggressive and virile democracy, will inevitably find these inalienable and unalterable rights merely a name so far as they are concerned.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917