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Meanings of thriftiness in English
Usage of thriftiness in English
1
The village, though irregular, had a general air of thriftiness and respectability.
2
You ought to have taught them the value of cleanliness, thriftiness, and comfort.
3
For briskness, thriftiness, energy, and alacrity, it is hard to find his match.
4
The travel industry has also noticed a new thriftiness.
5
Aussies have bought what we need and a damaging thriftiness is settling on the economy.
6
This arises from the simple tastes of the people, combined, doubtless, with their notable thriftiness.
7
Where there had been wastefulness, there was now thriftiness.
8
Not to spend more than twenty thousand francs in three months was the quintessence of thriftiness.
9
Much of the credit for the added thriftiness goes to the 5 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery under the cargo floor.
10
There, thriftiness is the rule.
11
It's pure toil, harsh soap and Presbyterian thriftiness that turned Northern Ireland into the economic powerhouse it plainly isn't.
12
This irritation to the skin prevents the animal from becoming rested, and after a time seriously interferes with its thriftiness.
13
Their fixed determination is to support and educate them themselves, and they set themselves to the work with thriftiness and forethought.
14
Two months' provisions had been brought; the steamer called weekly, so that we did not contemplate famine, though thriftiness was imperative.
15
If he spends more money in the Colony than the Chinaman does, it is because he lacks the Chinaman's self-abnegation and thriftiness.
16
This is how the ocean feeds back to the land the sulphur washed out in rivers, a typical piece of Gaian thriftiness.
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