thriftless

Example Sentences

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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

I was a close student, of a rather retiring disposition, a stone-mason by trade, careless and indifferent to public honors, and so thriftless that many trifling neighborhood debts had accumulated against me.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

There was a point beyond which it was unwise to provoke the baronage or the commons, and, unlike his flighty and thriftless father, he knew where that point came.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton