thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthriftiness
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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They have, in consequence, a prevailing air of unthriftiness in personal matters, which, however it may operate to the prejudice of the pocket of the individual, has a mellow and kindly effect upon his disposition.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
The symptoms are rather vague as a rule, but the general result is a condition of unthriftiness.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
What is that but both unthriftiness and dotage?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
Loss of appetite and unthriftiness occur in severe cases.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
The worst faults of Miss Sheppard's worst style are reproduced here, joined to an unthriftiness in which she had no part nor lot.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
