thriftlessness

Drink was associated with thriftlessness, idleness and immorality.

No doubt the grand-old Victorian would have reprimanded us for our thriftlessness, extravagance and improvidence.

Social investigators were also ready to criticise the management of the household economy and were particularly concerned to establish the degree to which thriftlessness on the part of the wife contributed to poverty.

Those whose 'condition is due to improvidence or thriftlessness and there is no hope of being able to make him independent in the future' were left to destitution or the Poor Law.

Thorle was primed with an ample succession of stories and themes, chiefly concerning poverty, thriftlessness, reclamation, reformed characters, and so forth, which carried him in an almost uninterrupted sequence through the remainder of the dinner.

Moreover, Alfred Marshal stressed the importance of saving to secure against future risks: "The thriftlessness of early times was in great measure due to the want of security that those who made provision for the future would enjoy it".