They knew we had warned them scores and scores of times of the consequences of their wilful and reckless improvidence.

Ignorance, poverty and disease, huddled in dens of wretchedness, where they multiply with reckless improvidence, sometimes fostered by mistaken charity.

The lavish expenditure in which Russian nobles often indulge indicates too frequently not large fortune, but simply foolish ostentation and reckless improvidence.

'And do not mistake reckless improvidence for an independent mind.'