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
Indeed, the site was formed by nature for prosperity;160 and a bad government and a thriftless people could not prevent the increase of the colony.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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
I was a close student, of a rather retiring disposition, a stone-mason by trade, careless and indifferent to public honors, and so thriftless that many trifling neighborhood debts had accumulated against me.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
