thrifty
Example Sentences
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A thrifty sort, then—he acts as his own camera operator and prefers hardware-store lightbulbs to specialized equipment—and one gracious in acknowledging his co-workers of many years.
But new survey data show that baby boomers — America’s richest generation and one often perceived as being thriftier those that followed — are more wasteful in certain spending categories than younger people.
From MarketWatch
Boomer must have drawn a boy’s name, because all his compliments came right out of the Boy Scout Rules—thrifty, clean, loyal.
From Literature
Even so, she came away with a positive impression of a thrifty, humble and ambitious man, who was sending money home to his family.
Fairly early in his lengthy investment career, in the mid-1960s, this thrifty son of Yorkshire, England, grew besotted with speculative small-cap stocks.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
