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unthriftiness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unthrifty + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being unthrifty.
    • The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot. 1864, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864:
    • It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness. 1921, A.H. Beesley, The Gracchi Marius and Sulla:
    • 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. 1652, Joseph Hall, The Sons of God Led by the Spirit of God: