unthrifty

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No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him.

From Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Wilde, Oscar

She doled out to him a few ducats, stamped with her own effigy, and, knowing his unthrifty ways, she said to herself: "He'll not go very far with that."

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.

Few of them saved anything, for there was every temptation to squander their gains in dissipation; and men whose income is subject to wide fluctuations are notoriously unthrifty.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

A few men yet followed for their livelihood the hunter's and trapper's life of laziness and hardship, for the most part unthrifty, and poor in everything but shiftless contentment and the wisdom of woodcraft.

From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Thrifty trees are not usually bothered with borers, and unthrifty trees should be made into firewood.

From The Apple by Various