thrift
noun
economical management; economy; frugality.
thriftlessness
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a word derived from
thrift.
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a word derived from
thriftless.
thriftlessadjectivewithout thrift; improvident; wasteful.
Example Sentences
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About 1810 the Rev. Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Scotland became worried by the thriftlessness of his parishioners.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it lasted, Lord Elcho went over to Tranent—a village in East Lothian—to address the colliers upon their thriftlessness, their idleness, and their attempted combinations to keep up the price of coal.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
She penetrated the homes of the cottagers, she tasted of their foods, she rated them on uncleanliness, drunkenness, and thriftlessness; she lectured them on cooking.
From The Imaginary Marriage by Henry St. John Cooper
Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb.
From Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning
He never could be made to feel that by these spontaneous generosities he was encouraging145 thriftlessness and mendicancy.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott
