improvident

"I had not thought your father to be the improvident sort."

Married to an improvident doctor, she had no money to give.

It did not offer a reason other than that its earlier decision had been improvident.

Indeed, I think my country was ashamed to have so improvident a person in its employ.

"I'm an improvident person in the upper middle class who every so often finds herself impoverished."

We did not expect that the first improvident use of those figures would appear on the Times editorial page.

He had never given Kat any money, fearing it would make her even more improvident than she already was.

Yes, it was true she'd been improvident and rash.

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a bit improvident," she said.

With the assistance of improvident borrowers, Wall Street brought down the economy.

My people might be tempted to some improvident action."

However, now that you've brought the thing into camp, it would be improvident not to eat it.

I do not deny that he is improvident.

In his later life he moved to Exeter, where he made an improvident second marriage.

I could say that my demands on you are as improvident, but I won't.

He called the decision "an exercise in raw judicial power" that was "improvident and extravagant."

Shoppers so improvident as to have waited until the last minute were punished with empty shelves.

"I'm amazed to have this apartment, having been so improvident all my life," Randall Smith was saying the other day.

For the new generation, providence meant looking ahead in this progressive sense; those who would not do so were classed as improvident.

Besides, I must manage to get some bait, for we have been improvident enough not to save a single scrap."

I thought you was poor, my improvident friend!'

The Psychlos were both improvident and credit-pinching at the same time.

She was the adored first child of a charming but improvident businessman and his smart, self-possessed wife.

All may not be equal, but you will not be burdened long for any improvident decision.

He would miss out on his junior and senior years in college, a semi-carefree time, certainly the last improvident days a prodigy could spend.