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

All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry’s irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure.

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

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.

He was a dissolute, thriftless fellow, every faculty of whose low mind seemed to have been concentrated into the one mean gift of cunning.

From Lost in the Ca?on by Calhoun, Alfred R.