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improvident
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synonyms: prodigal, profligate ???
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Definition:1. not preparing for the future2. incautious; careless
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I afterward saw this improvident husband and unnatural father. He had just squandered all the money he had been able to beg or borrow in buying six tickets, which entitled the holder to that many days’ employment in pitching hay into a barn. A week later I met him again. He was broken in health, his limbs trembled, his walk was an uncertain shuffle. Clearly he was suffering from overwork.
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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Such a housekeeper Marie St. Clare was not, nor her mother before her. Indolent and childish, unsystematic and improvident, it was not to be expected that servants trained under her care should not be so likewise;
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbours and made merry.
Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart, p.4 (1958)
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my untoward fate and the improvidence of my parents, who, I know not how, were unseasonably reduced to poverty, brought me to the court of Madrid,
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote
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and Emma soon saw him standing before Miss Fairfax, and talking to her; but as to its effect on the young lady, as he had improvidently placed himself exactly between them, exactly in front of Miss Fairfax, she could absolutely distinguish nothing.
Jane Austen. Emma
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