(1) Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless .(2) The U.S. Congressional Record quotes an unnamed speaker as saying u2018an idle and thriftless race of savages cannot be permitted to stand guard at the treasure vaults of the nation which hold our gold and silver.u2019(3) This certainly was u2018a thriftless sort of charityu2019, to use his own phrase, which did not cause him much sacrifice, although he was generous in absolute terms.(4) Riches cannot be found in the hands of the thriftless .(5) Yet, as Smiles observed, u2018No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.u2019(6) She focuses on the joys of the old orchard where the trees, u2018long past their prime,u2019 remain with their u2018boughsu2026 untrimmed in thriftless beauty.u2019(7) He's the last revolutionary measuring up the last of the thriftless rich.(8) A certain disillusion is perhaps necessary for the practice of conversation: it is the art of the thriftless genius, appropriate to the brilliant failure, the genius manquu00e9, and the inebriate.(9) They have a duty not to expend those moneys thriftlessly but to deploy the full financial resources available to it to the best advantageu2019.(10) For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness .(11) On the other hand, there are their counterparts of avarice, fraud, injustice, and selfishness, as displayed by the inordinate lovers of gain; and the vices of thriftlessness , extravagance, and improvidence, on the part of those who misuse and abuse the means entrusted to them.(12) The sky in Beijing was rather yellowish, natural resources (such as water, wood, and oil) are consumed thriftlessly , and u2018human capitalu2019 is often used relentlessly.(13) I've been thriftlessly spending on clothes and the like that I don't see a stop to it any time soon, though I am making myself small promises.(14) Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds.(15) It is, however, in a sad state of repair, and the evidences of neglect and thriftlessness are apparent everywhere.(16) The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness , and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent.
