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

Robert was thriftless, volatile and easy-going, a good knight but a most incompetent sovereign.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

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.

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