thriftless
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“I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015
Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry’s irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The weeds do choke the thriftless fields, No profit now the harvest yields; Honey is sought, but only gall Is found, for still the prices fall.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 by Various
Indeed, the site was formed by nature for prosperity;160 and a bad government and a thriftless people could not prevent the increase of the colony.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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