thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthriftily
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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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
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
"Imagine it," Miss Linden went on,—"imagine this one little real flower bending over a whole garden of muslin marigolds and silk sunflowers and velvet verbenas, growing unthriftily in a bed of white muslin!"
From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner
Ye say ye make war for the safeguard of the commonweal, yea, but noway sooner nor more unthriftily may the commonweal perish than by war.
From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus
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
