IMPROVIDENT in a Sentence

Learn IMPROVIDENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for IMPROVIDENT, such as:

1. I do not deny that he is improvident.
2. An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPROVIDENT
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improvident
 a.  thriftless; not providing for future; incautious
Classic Sentence:
1  An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  They are careless because they have not found that it pays to be careful; they are improvident because the improvident ones of their acquaintance get on about as well as the provident.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  I do not deny that he is improvident.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
4  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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  He was constantly being warned to mend his improvident ways and begin to "save for a rainy day.".