Meanings of thriftlessness in English

Young as he was, Dick felt the absolute thriftlessness of this proceeding.

To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance.

There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude.

Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb.

Laziness, irresponsibility, and thriftlessness figure in from ten to fifteen per cent of charity cases.

She lived in a chronic state of wonder over the laziness, the thriftlessness, and the dirt of Englishwomen.

It is not drink, nor thriftlessness, nor immorality, as the philanthropists do vainly talk; still less is it crime.

An insurance policy has often changed the habits of an entire family from thriftlessness and spendthrift tendencies to thrift and order.

No, my friend, it is not true that the poverty of the poor is due to their sins, thriftlessness and intemperance.

RANDAL.-"Ah, sir, it often takes the energy of generations to repair the thriftlessness and extravagance of a single owner."

Surely it ought not to be so difficult to put an end to the Satanic influences of thriftlessness, drunkenness, and improvidence!

Education has almost banished drunkenness from Germany; and had England no drunkenness, no thriftlessness, no reckless multiplication, our social miseries would be comparatively trivial.

She penetrated the homes of the cottagers, she tasted of their foods, she rated them on uncleanliness, drunkenness, and thriftlessness; she lectured them on cooking.

Young as he was, Dick felt the absolute thriftlessness of this proceeding.

To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance.

There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude.