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
He is thriftless, and takes no thought for the morrow.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry’s irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
