Spanish
derrochador Not provident; not providing for the future.
Antonyms
Examples for "provident"
Examples for "provident"
1
They suffered the provident arrangements of the Incas to fall into decay.
2
We are made provident and sagacious by the fickleness of our climate.
3
God and nature have permitted that nations should become industrious and provident.
4
A provident city government and a vigorous police preserved order and peace.
5
As men become wise and thoughtful, they generally become provident and frugal.
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Both were throughout life lacking in executive ability; both were financially improvident.
2
He was industrious but improvident; he made money and he lost it.
3
This improvident expenditure has had the effect of making the people discontented.
4
I also say they are not improvident or extravagant, but the reverse.
5
Like mountaineers generally, Baker was liberal to a fault, and eminently improvident.
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There is nothing so imprudent or so improvident as over-prudence or over-providence.
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They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful.
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They were, of course, improvident; for, like savages generally, they never save.
9
Another class is composed of helpless infants, with or without improvident mothers.
10
The hollow-eyed women, suffering children, and dazed, improvident negroes, wander around aimlessly.
11
The Negroes were with few exceptions shiftless and improvident plantation laborers and renters.
12
Trade him for that entertainment that I promised those impractical and improvident Nazarenes.
13
The bargain, even if it had been honestly carried out, was improvident enough.
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But I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy.
15
These men were always improvident and never seemed to think ahead.
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An old ragged black man, honest, simple, and improvident, told us the tale.
