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Improvidently

adverb

In an improvident manner.

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"Improvidently" Quotes from Famous Books

... this object, and with every other that may be allotted to their particular cognizance and direction. 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 ...

— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

... things, while there were other projects of a more personal advantage awaiting his consideration. He was wishing heartily at that moment that some girls had not one-quarter of the brains that nature had improvidently endowed them with, but this being a hopeless hope, he occupied himself in trying to discover the best way in which to deal with ...

— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

... soon remove her anxious distress about foreign distempers. The reason arable land is so scarce in Spain is because the people squander so much of it on their persons, and then when they die it is improvidently buried with them. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... articulate, Mechanical, improvidently wise, (Servant of Fate), He has not understood the little cries And foreign conversations of the small Delightful creatures that have followed him Not far behind; Has failed to hear the sympathetic call Of Crockery and Cutlery, those kind Reposeful Teraphim ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various

Words linked to "Improvidently" : improvident, providently