provident vs shiftless

provident

adj
  • Providing (for someone’s needs). 

  • Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future. 

  • Showing care in the use of something (especially money or provisions), so as to avoid wasting it. 

shiftless

adj
  • Untrustworthy as a result of being incompetent at the job. 

  • Destitute of shifts or expedients; lacking proper means. 

  • Lazy, unmotivated. 

How often have the words provident and shiftless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )