thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthriftily
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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I will not unthriftily spill my letters any more there, where they returne me no fruit.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
“Oh, now I love you!” she cried, a-thrill with disappointment to find him so unthriftily high-minded.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
You know the modest sunne full fifteene times Blushing did rise, and blushing did descend, While I in making of these ill made rimes, My golden bowers unthriftily did spend.
From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
He said that his Mamma was dying, and that it was not wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily in the presence of 'Estreekin Sahib'.
From Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages by Rudyard Kipling
All winter it will shake out seeds unthriftily upon the snow, standing with a calm brotherhood who have gone beyond dependence on the day.
From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm
