Definition of "unthriftiness" [un•thrift•i•ness]

• The quality of being unthrifty. (noun)

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• "Common symptoms include diarrhea which later becomes watery and profuse, lack of appetite, cessation of rumination, listlessness, depression and unthriftiness."
• "There is, of course, no such episode in _The Heir of Linne_, but all the stories have similar circumstances, and the majority present the moral aspect of unthriftiness, and of friends deserting a man who loses his wealth."
• "The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot."