unthrifty
Example Sentences
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In these cases of the lungs and the bowels becoming tubercular, the pigs become unthrifty and frequently waste away and die.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
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 P. Jones
The remainder is ragged, unthrifty sand-hills, pegged down by houses.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
Comparing a careful and an unthrifty family, the difference in use may amount to as much as a third on the total wage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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
