thriftiness
Example Sentences
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Thriftiness is relative: specialty cocktails are $18, and with tax and tip automatically added to the bill, a Jameson on the rocks surpasses $21.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2011
Of beginning the Day, of praying, of behaving themselves studiously at School, Thriftiness of Time: Age flies.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
Thriftiness is one of the best regulators of life.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
