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Definition of Thriftless

Thriftless
Thriftless Thrift"less, a. Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs. -- Thrift"less*ly, adv. -- Thrift"less*ness, n.

Meaning of Thriftless from wikipedia

- neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy. On publication, critical notices were plentiful...
- poorer classes was "voluntary and self-imposed—the results of idleness, thriftlessness, intemperance, and misconduct." In terms of social structure, the Industrial...
- 4–5". "Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 3, line 16". Watson, Robert N. (1987). ""Thriftless Ambition," Foolish Wishes, and the Tragedy of Macbeth". In Bloom, Harold...
- rule for decades. He believed that "the typical African ... is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self control, discipline and foresight,...
- in Allan Ramsay's comic monologue. It will be remembered too that the thriftless ne'er-do-well of A Rake's Progress inherited his money from a miserly...
- must have four millions of disfranchised, disarmed, untaught, landless, thriftless, non-producing, non-consuming, degraded men, or else you must have four...
- Klux Klan leader, who described them as "a distinct race of people ... thriftless, uneducated, unthinking beings, who live little better than negroes."...
- 1/3rds per cent. The Negro in North Carolina, as these figures show, is thriftless, improvident, does not ac****ulate money, and is not accounted a desirable...
- That's the stuff! Give the prosperous man the ****ens! Legislate the thriftless man into ease, whack the stuffing out of the creditors and tell the debtors...
- the "new issue" (Blacks born after slavery) whom he described as "lazy, thriftless, intemperate, insolent, dishonest, and without the most rudimentary elements...