thriftless

Example Sentences

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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

The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

She proved a prolific, thriftless woman and ill housekeeper, but through all the rubs and pinches of his after years he was ever an affectionate husband and father.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

After these events Ka Panshandi’s name became a mockery and a proverb in the land; ballads were sung setting forth her fate as a warning to lazy and thriftless wives.

From Folk-Tales of the Khasis by Rafy, K. U.