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Unthrift

Unthrift \Un"thrift`\, n.

  1. Want of thrift; unthriftiness; prodigality.

  2. An unthrifty person. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

Unthrift

Unthrift \Un*thrift"\, a. Unthrifty. [Obs.]

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unthrift

a. unthrifty. n. 1 A lack of thriftiness; prodigality. 2 (context now rare English) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.

Usage examples of "unthrift".

Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.