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

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

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.

These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton