unthrifty
Example Sentences
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The losses of the unthrifty managers come out of the accumulations of previous thrift, or else are borne by the thrifty men who have trusted them.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
The tax, under thrifty management, could be easily paid; under unthrifty management, it would ruin the manager.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
The remainder is ragged, unthrifty sand-hills, pegged down by houses.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
We may work till we are gray-headed ere we can produce a turnip or a cabbage for him on these barren, unthrifty rocks.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
A farm valued at $500 annual rent might, under thrifty management, produce twice as much as under unthrifty management.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
