thriftlessness
- a word derived from thrift.
- a word derived from thriftless.
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
I shall no doubt be told that what I have just written has an immoral tendency, and is a direct encouragement to sloth, thriftlessness, etc.
From Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women by Bennett, Arnold
The blight of poverty and thriftlessness had fallen upon it.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Stratford was acquitted—the king’s thriftlessness and not the chancellor’s maladministration had emptied the treasury.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
It was with him that their parents 121 resided, and frequent were his appeals to Lincoln to extricate him from some pecuniary strait into which he had fallen through his confirmed thriftlessness and improvidence.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)
