thriftless

[thrift-lis]

adjective

1. without thrift; improvident; wasteful.

2. Archaic.,  useless or pointless.

Other Word Forms

• thriftlessly adverb
• thriftlessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of thriftless¹

1350–1400; Middle English: unsuccessful. See thrift, -less

Example Sentences

Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers.

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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.

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Amidst that great household, where the thriftless habits of the master had descended to the servants, and rendered all reckless and wasteful alike, Darby had thriven and grown almost rich.

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He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.

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The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals.

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