Sample Sentences forimprovident (auto-selected)
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But I also spoke to you of a certain extravagance in the female blood of this family. Something willful. Improvident. (source)Improvident = not providing for the future; or impulsive (not giving careful consideration)
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In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow.† (source)
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Why should he feel more for that child, to whom he was bound by nothing but a single improvident night, than for any other?† (source)
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He scorned the improvident, and now the improvident would be just as good as the careful, the sound, the thrifty.† (source)
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Blanche [picking up a large envelope containing more papers] There are thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications — to put it plainly!† (source)
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This is a moment: An Englishman named Gilbert Gaunt, which he later changed to Gant (a concession probably to Yankee phonetics), having come to Baltimore from Bristol in 1837 on a sailing vessel, soon let the profits of a public house which he had purchased roll down his improvident gullet.† (source)
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But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy.† (source)
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But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence.† (source)
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He was gone immediately; and Emma soon saw him standing before Miss Fairfax, and talking to her; but as to its effect on the young lady, as he had improvidently placed himself exactly between them, exactly in front of Miss Fairfax, she could absolutely distinguish nothing.† (source)
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'Because they are improvident,' said Mrs. Sparsit.† (source)
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She kept them secret from her father, whose improvidence was the cause of much of her misery.† (source)
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Not to confer in each case a degree of power commensurate to the end, would be to violate the most obvious rules of prudence and propriety, and improvidently to trust the great interests of the nation to hands which are disabled from managing them with vigor and success.† (source)
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An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.† (source)
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Here was another illustration of the childlike improvidence of this age and people.† (source)
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She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident.† (source)
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Their improvidence is habitual and unconquerable.† (source)
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