unthriftiness

unthriftiness

English

Etymology

unthrifty +‎ -ness

Noun

unthriftiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being unthrifty.
   • 1652, Joseph Hall, The Sons of God Led by the Spirit of God

     Many a one here is born to a fair estate; and is stripped of it, whether by the just disherison of his offended Father, or else by the power or circumvention of an adversary, or by his own mis-government and unthriftiness.

   • 1864, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864‎:

     The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.

   • 1921, A.H. Beesley, The Gracchi Marius and Sulla‎:

     It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.