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Unthriftiness   Listen
noun
Unthriftiness  n.  The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unthriftiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... general, it will not do as a definite policy year in and year out. Those orchards planted in grass which the author has had an opportunity to examine, have usually shown a large percentage of trees with branches dead at the tips, "stagheaded," with yellow leaves and a general appearance of unthriftiness. It may have been that these orchards were planted in grass while the trees were too young. The better treatment, and the safer one to follow in old orchards, is to cultivate the ground in spring and sow down in cowpeas or some other legume. Beggarweed, velvet beans or soja beans ...
— The Pecan and its Culture • H. Harold Hume



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