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Meanings of thriftless in English
Usage of thriftless in English
1
The thriftless man has no share in the progress of the world.
2
In other letters he wrote even more sharply to his thriftless step-brother.
3
You didn't think your grandmother was such a thriftless wifie as that!
4
They have left the riverside to the thriftless men and the truant boys.
5
You always were a thriftless fellow; you must have been wasting your fire.
6
The miser, the scrub, the extravagant, the thriftless, will necessarily fail.
7
The Mexican leads a shiftless, thriftless life and seems satisfied merely to exist.
8
The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves.
9
All his life he had called him thriftless and unready.
10
Was a great drunkard, thriftless, did not go to the trouble of seeking work.
11
To be thriftless, is enough to deprive one of all manly spirit and virtue.
12
Everybody laughed right out, for everybody knew just how easy-going and thriftless Peter was.
13
He was idle, thriftless, poor, a hunter, and a rover.
14
In the indolent summer days the negro, careless, thriftless, ignorant, works only at intervals.
15
Our labor is for the most part very thriftless.
16
Clearly she must be another than the thriftless, shiftless creature too common in working-class homes.
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United Kingdom
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