English

Noun

unthriftiness ‎(uncountable)

1. The quality of being unthrifty.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864:

     The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.

   • 1921, A.H. Beesley, The Gracchi Marius and Sulla:

     It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.