thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthrifty
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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In autumn all horses that have been grazing should be dosed with some vermifuge to destroy the worms that are invariably present, and thus prevent colic or an unthrifty or anaemic state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
In these cases of the lungs and the bowels becoming tubercular, the pigs become unthrifty and frequently waste away and die.
From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Sanders Spencer
Woe to the unthrifty gardener, who, while drilling in his mustard, or cress, or radishes, scatters a few seeds on the surface!
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
He calculates his morality thus: Legal honesty is the best policy,—dishonesty, then, is a bad bargain—and therefore wrong—everything is wrong which is unthrifty.
From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher
Profits offset by losses.—The actual profits in any enterprise are often overestimated by our failing to notice that all the waste of unthrifty undertakings comes practically out of the profits of the more thrifty.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
