thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
thriftily
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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Plenty of working families are raising children and having fruitful social lives on median incomes or even less: Living thriftily is not the same as living penuriously or meanly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Thanking Scholz for a trustful cooperation during coalition negotiations, Lindner vowed to respect the fiscal rules of the constitution, use taxpayers money thriftily and strive for solid public finances.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021
Many other dramas set in the trenches have thriftily relied upon re-purposed second world war helmets.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2019
After years of writing to deadlines time has indeed become money for me, and I cannot afford to squander any of it − thriftily insomniac Mrs Thatcher would approve.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
Here he is master, too, of his English, thriftily culling the fit word, not effusing a too exuberant stream of description.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
