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
He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
