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/θɹˈɪftɪli/
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ADVERB
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in a thrifty manner
a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket
How To Use thriftily In A Sentence
- He said that his breed was dying, and that it was not well-argued for any man to lie unthriftily in the grateful dead of ‘Estreekin Sahib’.
- If we learn to live thriftily and remember the importance of helping our neighbours then we can find ways to adjust.
- Is there not more scope for dishes like fishcakes and seafood stews where fish is thriftily combined with cheap decent ingredients?
- Xie Jin lives before death thriftily , after dying, also conforms to simplicity the ceremony.
- a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket
- His brother Stephen, several years older than he, was so unthriftily hot-tempered as to shoot his horse, a very fine animal, when it fidgeted.
- Older prose fictions often have titles which straggle, unthriftily, by mentioning so many unknowns that we forget all of them as we plod down their title-pages.
- Glory in living thriftily and struggling ; take sybaritism to be a disgrace.