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
He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
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
The weeds do choke the thriftless fields, No profit now the harvest yields; Honey is sought, but only gall Is found, for still the prices fall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
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