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thriftless

[thrift-lis] / ˈθrɪft lɪs /








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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

So reckless and ruthless was he, so idle and thriftless, that he required for his precarious and beastly subsistence a domain which would furnish cities with all their comforts and luxuries.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

If ever there was a poor, moithering, thriftless thing, it's that mother of yours.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The Paston Letters, that unique collection of the private correspondence of a typical family of nouveaux riches, thriftless, pushing, unscrupulous, give us the true picture of the time.

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