Meaning of unthriftness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process of wasting away; failure to thrive.
   uncountable
2. Unthriftiness.
   India, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“The disease is quite generally distributed and may cause considerable loss and unthriftness among pigs when conditions are favorable for its development.”

“Health disorders that are treated with adequate selenium include white muscle muscle disease, retained placenta in cattle, reproductive failure, unthriftness and dead or weak offspring.”

“The symptoms include wasting as major sign but also unthriftness, paleness of the skin, respiratory distress, diarrhoea and sometimes icterus.”

“In sub acute and chronic cases, lower doses of aflatoxin produce chronic effects such as lethargy, unthriftness, lameness, hepatitis and delayed death.”

“And of my self, I may be a near example unto you of my folly and unthriftiness.”

“Thus you see that impatience causeth idolatry, causeth murder, brought in rebellion and unthriftness, expelled from heaven, and banished out of paradise; which things are registered for our erudition, to teach us sufference, and to beware of anger, of fierceness, of envy, which be the works of the flesh.”

“It ignores the dangers of unthriftness and extravagance, incidental to too facile credit.”

“It was the “unthriftness and offensive indolence” of those who “can well feed and flutter, dress and dandle and carelessly chafe away with toddy and tobacco” which had caused “the Giver of all Good” to send “this disease of the potato."”

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