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Example sentences for "improvidence"

Lexicographically close words:
improvement; improvements; improver; improvers; improves; improvident; improvidently; improving; improvisation; improvisations
  1. Be it as it may, man always fails of his work, and if he does so in the more genial climes of Europe, what can come of his idleness and his improvidence in The Vast African Desert?

  2. To show the improvidence of our Moors, we had only just powder enough for these three discharges.

  3. Henry Hart's improvidence is ascribed, in part, by those who knew him, to the irregular manner in which his father supplied him with money, Bernard Hart being sometimes very lavish and sometimes very parsimonious with his son.

  4. This at least is to be said: the extravagance or improvidence of a man like Bret Harte stands upon a very different footing from that of an ordinary person.

  5. Even his natural improvidence in money matters can hardly excuse him for selling the copyright of all his stories as they came out, leaving no income to be derived from them after his death.

  6. His own constitutional improvidence added to the difficulties thus created.

  7. To such improvidence is the course of legislation subject in relation to internal improvements on local matters, even with the best intentions on the part of Congress.

  8. This mode of aiding such works is also in its nature deceptive, and in many cases conducive to improvidence in the administration of the national funds.

  9. With an eagerness which is natural to all hunters, and with an improvidence which always attends these excursions, the animal is frequently killed without any necessity, and no other part of them is preserved but the tongue.

  10. Thus our improvidence is made sponsor for our disinclination.

  11. Their disposition to control the operations of the National Government will increase with every increase of the means of annoyance, which the folly and improvidence of Congress may throw into their hands.

  12. His troubles and burdens would seem to have been caused far more by mistakes of judgment and improvidence than by any stress of circumstance.

  13. These institutions may have been useful to the few who desired to improve their estates, but they certainly did not cure, and rather tended to foster, the inveterate improvidence of the many.

  14. Lamartine relate to his improvidence and impecuniosity -- Ten times worse in that respect than Balzac -- M.

  15. They could have had the stories of Alexandra Dumas' improvidence with regard to himself and his generosity to others for the asking from his familiars.

  16. Reduced to shift for himself, he will see the evil of waste--the folly of improvidence and want of order.

  17. Mrs. Buffle, who was always ripe and ready for a dish of scandal, whether it touched on domestic differences, or on young girls' improvidence in the shape of dress.

  18. Charlotte might, indeed, have preached a very long sermon before she could effect any change in the system of improvidence obtaining in Honey Fair.

  19. This harvest might insure the subsistence of their family for a whole year, but their improvidence will reduce them within a few days to having to sell themselves for work (peonage).

  20. He gives this up with an improvidence which seems innate, though perhaps we might attribute it to ignorance.

  21. The consequences[315] of their first improvidence were soon bitterly visited on the heads of the crusaders.

  22. He knew the one class from the other, yet railed at both in threatening words, reproaching their improvidence and predicting his own ruin, but he ended by giving to all alike.

  23. To what do you attribute that improvidence on the part of the negro laborer?

  24. I can not tell how I really suffered in many ways for my improvidence and heedlessness, in going to sea so ill provided with every thing calculated to make my situation at all comfortable, or even tolerable.

  25. So you're the same piece of improvidence as ever!

  26. The long table in the great kitchen soon gathered its company of waifs and strays,--creatures of improvidence and misfortune, and the irreparable victims of old age.

  27. Steele was manager of Drury Lane Theatre, and made as bad a one as improvidence and animal spirits could produce.

  28. He was distrustful of the secrecy, celerity, and improvidence with which the arrangement was carried through and ushered into being.

  29. But improvidence and mismanagement soon bore their legitimate fruits.

  30. Beza, not apparently without good reason, blamed the improvidence of Condé in not forestalling the enemy.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improvidence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.