thriftless
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“I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015
Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
It was thriftless, arbitrary, and lacking in continuity of policy, yet not tyrannical or cruel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
I'm a safe carle, and can spae fortunes as well as blaw up thae green bags wi' thriftless wind.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
So reckless and ruthless was he, so idle and thriftless, that he required for his precarious and beastly subsistence a domain which would furnish cities with all their comforts and luxuries.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
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