unthrifty

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The mere passage of wealth into fresh hands, always unthrifty, created an immense demand out of the very general mourning and distress for articles of cost and luxury.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 by Various

The tax, under thrifty management, could be easily paid; under unthrifty management, it would ruin the manager.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

They cause the horse to become very unthrifty and thin, the coat being dull, without the natural gloss that is seen in health, or as it is termed, “hide-bound.”

From Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies by Nunn, Joshua A.

He calculates his morality thus: Legal honesty is the best policy,—dishonesty, then, is a bad bargain—and therefore wrong—everything is wrong which is unthrifty.

From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Beecher, Henry Ward

The remainder is ragged, unthrifty sand-hills, pegged down by houses.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard