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

He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William

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

The Paston Letters, that unique collection of the private correspondence of a typical family of nouveaux riches, thriftless, pushing, unscrupulous, give us the true picture of the time.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various