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
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But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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
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
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