improvidence
- n a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
- Marx's strengths and weaknesses are carefully chronicled: the affectionate relationship with his daughters, the Promethean capacity for work, the hopeless improvidence with money .
- But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities.
- Last week certain of his Chicago friends decided that they could at least overcome his improvidence.