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
She would not trust to Dankwart, Giselher's thriftless man.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
He was a dissolute, thriftless fellow, every faculty of whose low mind seemed to have been concentrated into the one mean gift of cunning.
From Lost in the Ca?on by Calhoun, Alfred R.
Vocabulary lists containing thriftless
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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