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improvidence

/im-prov-i-duhnt/US // ɪmˈprɒv ɪ dənt //UK // (ɪmˈprɒvɪdənt) //

贪婪,贪得无厌,愚蠢的行为,贪婪无度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
    • : neglecting to provide for future needs.

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Examples

  • With the sum thus realized, I say, you propose to make good the losses which the bank has suffered by your improvidence?

  • The same improvidence is visible in many towns in France, and still more in Holland.

  • There is very little poverty and what there is is obviously the result of vice or improvidence.

  • Beza, not apparently without good reason, blamed the improvidence of Cond in not forestalling the enemy.

  • But improvidence and mismanagement soon bore their legitimate fruits.