thrifty
adjective
practicing thrift or economical management; frugal.
unthrifty
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a word derived from
thrifty.
Example Sentences
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We may work till we are gray-headed ere we can produce a turnip or a cabbage for him on these barren, unthrifty rocks.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
It is evident, too, that such a tax must bear heavily upon the unthrifty.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
The remainder is ragged, unthrifty sand-hills, pegged down by houses.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
A farm valued at $500 annual rent might, under thrifty management, produce twice as much as under unthrifty management.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him.
From Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde
