thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthrifty
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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They were formerly too often housed in damp, dirty, close, and imperfectly-built sheds, which was a fruitful source of disease and of unthrifty animals.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
Few of them saved anything, for there was every temptation to squander their gains in dissipation; and men whose income is subject to wide fluctuations are notoriously unthrifty.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
Comparing a careful and an unthrifty family, the difference in use may amount to as much as a third on the total wage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Stall-feeding is lost on an ill-shaped, unthrifty animal.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
The remainder is ragged, unthrifty sand-hills, pegged down by houses.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
