improvident

Can the law change the seasons for ye, or protect the careless from their own improvidence?

Where the digger or mechanic does not thrive and save money, the fault is entirely due to his own improvidence.

I bitterly repented our improvidence in not providing ourselves, as we easily might have done, with a supply of biscuits.

There is very little poverty and what there is is obviously the result of vice or improvidence.