How To Use Improvident In A Sentence
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Now that our government has implicated us in this regrettable, improvident and illegal war - we are obliged to make a substantial commitment to reconstruction.
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It bails out the improvident and sticks those who made prudent decisions with the bill.
Notable & Quotable
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After all, the wild Indians could not be justly termed improvident, when their manner of life is taken into consideration.
Indian Boyhood
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Where a nation has been ancestorially bound by foolish and improvident treaties, ample notice must be given of their termination.
Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
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I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural , concern!
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'improvident' (that was the favourite word) down the Yard.
Little Dorrit
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This well illustrates that even the best regulated national fisheries are not immune to improvident policies motivated by short-term social and political concerns.
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Hobbling creditors means that interest rates rise permanently, to the sober and honest as well as the improvident; but why should the former be taxed to subsidize the latter?
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She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature.
PAINT THE WIND
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Theodore was born at Port Adelaide into the large and improvident family of a Romanian father and English - Irish mother.
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Impecunious and improvident - or, as one biographer phrased it more kindly, ‘unprosperous’ were invariably on the list of invocations as well.
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But this, too, is true: Every improvident loan requires an improvident borrower to seek and accept it.
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Many people of normal capacity make improvident and unwise decisions in business matters.
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It is a matter of irrelevance, at least to me, whether the grant was improvident or no.
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This bill proposes to create a civil action for the improvident transfer of property by a vulnerable adult.
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No evidence is found that would suggest in all the circumstances that the transaction was intently improvident or fraudulent.
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He had hoped it would bring him money and social position, but Emily's father ties up her fortune, and Lopez is revealed as an improvident adventurer.
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No. Unless the court expressly reserved authority to do so in its order, the court can only reduce the fee if it is improvident as a result of an event that was not capable of being anticipated at the time of the order.
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She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature.
PAINT THE WIND
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The wives are greedy and the men, in the absence of any well-regulated women, are recklessly improvident.
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Improvident behaviour is likely to imprint indelible marks on a person's life and personality.
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he lived improvidently for the moment
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It's also clear that those of us who continued to live the old-fashioned way are to be punished by the majority for our quaint adherence to that creed -- while the feckless, the dim, the improvident and the greedy are featherbedded until the rest of us run out of money.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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I think we've made it abundantly clear that we who pay the taxes have had enough of subsidising the indolent, improvident, and irresponsible.
In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability
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Consequently, early versions of the installment plan were dismissed as the folly of the improvident poor, immigrants, and women.
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No evidence was adduced to show that this was an improvident sale.
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Or put another way, it's stealing from tomorrow to make up for the improvident ways of today.
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I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy.
Chapter 15
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Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado.
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He found “a substantial ground of truth in the indictment” of working-class Americans as “improvident and apparently incompetent to take care of the pecuniary details of their own life.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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So the war in Afghanistan must be gradually downshifted to the Left's pre-Iraq take on it: the "improvident" "quagmire" that "really solves nothing" and has only (as Obama said of the Bush approach) "given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.'
National Review Online
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Henry VI proved to be improvident, malleable, vacillating, partisan, uninterested in the arts of government, and, above all, antipathetic to the chivalric world his ancestors had adorned.
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While damages may be the remedy in an action for improvident sale, following disposal those damages cannot be measured without a benchmark of value consistent with commercial reasonability.
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Improvident tax cuts by state legislatures and faltering investment returns have left educational institutions, both public and private, scratching for every nickel and dime.
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A glance at some of the Court's business cases this term demonstrate the important role it can play in protecting business from improvident regulation.
Business Could Use A Friend
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Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
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French painters of distinction, but, as we discovered later, contributing too often from his own pocket to help out the _massier_ at the end of a difficult season, or smooth the path of some improvident pupil.
The Ways of Men
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Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
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They might draw from the waters, which cover a very small part of the fertile valley, fish enough to support, with the nelumbium nuts, nearly the whole of the present population; but then they are lotus-eaters, and as such improvident and indolent by all rules of poetry and legend.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
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These immediate-return hunter-gatherers never suffer anxiety about the future of food supplies and are characterized by improvident, generous, happy-go-lucky personalities.
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It was held that notwithstanding the solicitor's lapses leading to the pretrial, they did not, alone or in combination, amount to egregious error, nor was the plaintiff's settlement improvident.
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Had he been better informed, it is doubtful whether, improvident and enamored as he was, he would have ruralized and practicalized Romeo in the lane of Burleigh Grange.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
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I do not like being asked to pay large sums of money for windfalls to the improvident, but given the choice between improvident families losing their homes and stock and bondholders in improvident banks, I know whose windfall I’d choose to hand my a share of my income to.
Discourse.net: Feh
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In Europe, Germans think Greeks and other southern Europeans are lazy and improvident.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
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How are the 'improvident' -- 'harum-scarums' to live if you are not present to minister to their wants -- upon the best of security?
The Story of the Foss River Ranch