thriftless

[ thrift-lis ]

adjective

1. without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
2. Archaic. useless or pointless.

Other Words From

• thriftless·ly adverb
• thriftless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of thriftless¹

1350–1400; Middle English: unsuccessful. See thrift, -less

Example Sentences

Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers.

From Literature

“I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans.

From The Guardian

Amidst that great household, where the thriftless habits of the master had descended to the servants, and rendered all reckless and wasteful alike, Darby had thriven and grown almost rich.

From Project Gutenberg

He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.

From Project Gutenberg

The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals.

From Project Gutenberg

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