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Definition of Thriftless
1. Adjective. Careless of the future.
Definition of Thriftless
1. a. Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.
Definition of Thriftless
1. Adjective. wastefully reckless in the use of money or other resources ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thriftless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thriftless
Literary usage of Thriftless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"... that had these industrious and ingenious natives not been disturbed and driven
out by the thriftless and avaricious Spaniards, who never improved any ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"thriftless minutes, Wherein false joys have spun aweary life." FORD, vol. 1, p.
88. " To be man Is to be but the exercise of cares In several shapes ..."
3. Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American by William Henry Hurlbert (1888)
"But all the lazy and thriftless ones are better off now than they ever were; they
get from £4 to £6 a month, with nothing to do, and so they 're in clover, ..."
4. The Southern Student's Hand-book of Selections for Reading and Oratory by John Garland James (1879)
"THE thriftless FARMER. [ From CORN.] LOOK, thou substantial spirit of content!
Across this little vale, thy continent, To where, beyond the mouldering mill, ..."
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