IMPROVIDENT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for IMPROVIDENT, such as:
1. I do not deny that he is improvident.
2. An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
2. An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
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Meanings and Examples of IMPROVIDENT
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improvident
a. thriftless; not providing for future; incautious
Classic Sentence:
1 An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
2 They are careless because they have not found that it pays to be careful; they are improvident because the improvident ones of their acquaintance get on about as well as the provident.
3 I do not deny that he is improvident.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
4 It takes no spectacles to see that a great class of vicious, improvident, degraded people, among us, are an evil to us, as well as to themselves.
5 These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.
Example Sentence:
1 He was constantly being warned to mend his improvident ways and begin to "save for a rainy day.".