Sample sentences for IMPROVIDENT

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Definition

not provident; not providing for the future or without careful consideration

Her parents worked hard, but were improvident.

But I also spoke to you of a certain extravagance in the female blood of this family. Something willful. Improvident.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

improvident = not providing for the future; or impulsive (not giving careful consideration)

Besides, if your father saved money, and the others were improvident, he deserved to make a fortune.
Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,——that last lapse of the improvident.
Hardy, Thomas -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
I do not deny that he is improvident.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern
Austen, Jane -- Sense and Sensibility
They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful.
Potter, Beatrix -- The Original Peter Rabbit Books
She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
She kept them secret from her father, whose improvidence was the cause of much of her misery.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Their improvidence is habitual and unconquerable.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
—I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern!
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
He scorned the improvident, and now the improvident would be just as good as the careful, the sound, the thrifty.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
And you know what their improvidence is, ma'am.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
Who says this is improvident jealousy?
William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy."
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
The security of all would thus be subjected to the parsimony, improvidence, or inability of a part.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
Here was another illustration of the childlike improvidence of this age and people.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I do not deny that he is improvident.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

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