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
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
He said he would turn the national lottery into a kind of savings-and-loan association to cure the "improvidence" of the Cuban people.
From Time Magazine Archive
No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51.
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
