Indolent in his habits, the Indian is opposed to labor; improvident in his mode of life, he has little foresight in providing, or care in preserving.

when and what she pleases, is a thing unthinkable by the most improvident of statesmen.

He is too improvident for a leader, too petulant for a partisan; and does not sufficiently consult those with whom he is supposed to act in concert.

But the British soldier, improvident as the grasshopper, carries his day's rations in one place, and one place onlyhis stomach.