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

While he would possess a clear recollection of the thriftless farmer who had dropped the money while ploughing through a hole in his pocket.

From A Drake by George! by Trevena, John

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

A few minutes' time; a gossip with Mrs. Quale, touching the doings of Daffodil's Delight, and a groan at those thriftless Shucks, in their pigsty of a room.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry