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

From the present occupants, for the most part needy and thriftless speculators, they met with very different fare from what they had enjoyed under the former wealthy and luxurious proprietors.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling

Indeed, the site was formed by nature for prosperity;160 and a bad government and a thriftless people could not prevent the increase of the colony.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis