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
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Robert was thriftless, volatile and easy-going, a good knight but a most incompetent sovereign.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
He is thriftless, and takes no thought for the morrow.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.