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Significados de thriftlessness em inglês

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The trait of wasting resources.

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Examples for "waste"
Examples for "waste"
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In Europe alone we waste 90 million tonnes of food a year.
The Irish Times
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More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
Radio NZ
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Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
The Guardian
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Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign waste.
Radio NZ
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The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and waste.
Reuters
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Carelessness is the twin sister of wastefulness; they go hand in hand.
Community Civics and Rural Life
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In this war, more than in other campaigns, the wastefulness is apparent.
With the Allies
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It's an antidote to wastefulness and to the need for immediate gratification.
The art of mending: a novel
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She commented severely upon the wastefulness of always having pastry for dinner.
The Telegraph Boy
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I will now be compelled to pay for the wastefulness of others.
The Irish Times
Uso de thriftlessness em inglês
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Young as he was, Dick felt the absolute thriftlessness of this proceeding.
The Blue Lagoon
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To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance.
Thrift
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There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb.
Judith of the Plains
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Laziness, irresponsibility, and thriftlessness figure in from ten to fifteen per cent of charity cases.
Problems in American Democracy
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She lived in a chronic state of wonder over the laziness, the thriftlessness, and the dirt of Englishwomen.
Good Old Anna
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It is not drink, nor thriftlessness, nor immorality, as the philanthropists do vainly talk; still less is it crime.
Essays in Rebellion
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An insurance policy has often changed the habits of an entire family from thriftlessness and spendthrift tendencies to thrift and order.
Pushing to the Front
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No, my friend, it is not true that the poverty of the poor is due to their sins, thriftlessness and intemperance.
The Common Sense of Socialism / A Series of Letters Addressed to...
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RANDAL.-"Ah, sir, it often takes the energy of generations to repair the thriftlessness and extravagance of a single owner."
"My Novel" — Volume 07
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Surely it ought not to be so difficult to put an end to the Satanic influences of thriftlessness, drunkenness, and improvidence!
Thrift
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Education has almost banished drunkenness from Germany; and had England no drunkenness, no thriftlessness, no reckless multiplication, our social miseries would be comparatively trivial.
Thrift
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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.
The Imaginary Marriage
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Young as he was, Dick felt the absolute thriftlessness of this proceeding.
The Blue Lagoon
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To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance.
Thrift
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There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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Thriftlessness ao longo do tempo