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Recent Examples of improvident Then, there’s the waste that results from improvident eating habits. Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 Unsurprisingly, Peter proves to be nasty, brutish and improvident. Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022 Going that route is improvident. Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Mar. 2022 The history of emerging markets is full of imprudent investors as well as improvident borrowers. The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for improvident
Adjective
  • Additional charges included negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Young Christoph wrote in the knowledge that Bonhoeffer’s correspondence was being monitored and that a careless word could have fatal consequences.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The defense also contends that Trump, as a public figure, must show actual malice—proof that the Journal knew its reporting was false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth—and that the complaint fails to do so.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Western leaders largely dismissed these overt signals, assuming Putin would not be reckless enough to risk crippling sanctions, economic isolation, and a costly war.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Congressional Republicans called the expenditure wasteful and the secretive project fueled more suspicions about its necessity, according to the historical association.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has previously criticized the subsidies as wasteful.
    Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Griffin knew that both LeBron and the Lakers could be shortsighted.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And ignoring these risks would be shortsighted.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gather with friends and while away the afternoon with magically spiked concoctions — whether sipping a Jasmine Peach or Cucumber Mint Mystic Tea — and extravagant savory and sweet treats.
    Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Andrew later invited the couple back to Windsor in 2006 for his daughter Princess Beatrice’s extravagant 18th birthday ball, according to Britain’s The Sun on Sunday newspaper.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Improvident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improvident. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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