What is "unthrifty"

Usage examples of "unthrifty".

And your portrait is the likeness of an anxious, unthrifty cotton-planter who always spends his crop before he has made it, borrows on heavy interest to carry himself over from year to year, wears out his land, meets at last with utter ruin, and migrates to the West.

The yeomen are the stable, free men, who for the most part stay in one place, working the farms of gentlemen, are diligent, sometimes buy the land of unthrifty gentlemen, educate their sons to the schools and the law courts, and leave them money to live without labor.

We laugh at their attempt to sustain loyalty, and speak of them as a steady father of a family is wont to speak of some unthrifty prodigal who is throwing away his estate and hurrying from one ruinous debauchery to another.

Their unthrifty habits--the outcome of slavery--or an apprehension that a formal engagement for a years was a kind of bondage that might lead to a renewal of the old system.

The unthrifty habits of the elder Gibbon were now producing their natural result.

He approached, and saw a leg of mutton at the bottom, and the unthrifty housewife throwing away the liquor in which it had been boiled.

Plymouth Savoy was rigged so that the man in the trunk could push the back seat from the inside, and it would fold down, allowing our unthrifty, and generally greasy, contortionist to join our party.

Federico driving an unthrifty cow and her half-starved calf toward the home pasture.

It could never be that the Arnolds of Hazelmount should be turned off their farm as if they were poverty stricken, unthrifty, or unskilful farmers.