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

The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals.

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

He was a thriftless fellow, and, as he told me, had lived principally by the labour of his wife, who washed for European travellers.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd