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Improvidence

The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.

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Extravagance 76% connected

A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

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Prodigality 76% connected

Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.

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Profligacy 76% connected

The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dis…

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Imprudence 76% connected

The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; a…

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Improvident 74% connected

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.

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Improvident 74% connected

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.

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Providence 94% connected

The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

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Providence 94% connected

The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.

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