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
From the present occupants, for the most part needy and thriftless speculators, they met with very different fare from what they had enjoyed under the former wealthy and luxurious proprietors.
From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by Prescott, William Hickling
If ever there was a poor, moithering, thriftless thing, it's that mother of yours.
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
He was a thriftless fellow, and, as he told me, had lived principally by the labour of his wife, who washed for European travellers.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
