What is "thriftless"

Usage examples of "thriftless".

The forest trees, where not too crowded, are of magnificent growth, and the crops are gloriously abundant where the thriftless husbandry has not worn out the soil by an unvarying succession of exhausting crops.

Moineaud began to laugh like the gay thriftless Paris workman that he was.

Clearly she must be another than the thriftless, shiftless creature too common in working-class homes.

His father, ignorant, needy, and thriftless, content if he could keep soul and body together for himself and his family, was ever seeking, without success, to better his unhappy condition by moving on from one such scene of dreary desolation to another.

For the very reason that Vance knew he was receiving what he deserved, and that this was the just reward for his thriftless years of idleness, he began to hate Elizabeth with a cold, quiet hatred.

With thriftless waste of rubber a black Studebaker jerked to a stop In front.

They have left the riverside to the thriftless men and the truant boys.

Down came the teams attended by their slaves, circling and wheeling into the open place, and as they passed each group those lazy, lolling beggars crowded round and took the dole they were too thriftless to earn themselves.

Like Zouga himself, he had speculated by buying up original land grants from the thriftless drifters that made up the bulk of the original column and had paid them in whisky, carried up from the railhead in his own wagons.

Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan.

He had, I found, a different kind of contempt for the lower classes, regarding them as thriftless and unenterprising.