The store was a curious epitome of thrift and improvidence.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
On the other hand a normal year will see him well started and safe for another two or three seasons, while a really good year will place him in a position which means that only carelessness and improvidence can prevent him from attaining comfortable and practically independent circumstances.
"Wheat Growing in Australia"
Australia Department of External Affairs
Much has been said and written of the improvidence of the sailor, of his profligacy when in port, his childlike helplessness when in the hands of the landsharks who haunt the waterside streets, his blind reliance upon luck to get him out of difficulties, and his utter indifference to all precautionary provisions for the proverbial rainy day.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot