improvident
adjective
not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
improvidence
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a word derived from
improvident.
Example Sentences
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Two key factors in the SVB disaster can’t be overlooked: The incompetence of the bank’s management and the improvidence of its customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
Last week certain of his Chicago friends decided that they could at least overcome his improvidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brig Sophie, of Portland, Me., wallowed for 119 days in Atlantic gales while the sickened French passengers grew more & more scandalized at the improvidence of American seamen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Sergeant San Diego Your article "What Are Prisons For?" lays bare the improvidence of our attitude toward criminal justice.
From Time Magazine Archive
It strikes me, in my middle-class solipsism, that there is gross improvidence in some of these arrangements.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
