How To Use thriftless In A Sentence
- Five years earlier those scions of the radical Left, the Webbs, published a Fabian tract warning that children are being born freely to Irish Roman Catholics and the Polish, Russian and German Jews, the thriftless and irresponsible ... Chesterton and the Eugenic Nightmare
- Riches cannot be found in the hands of the thriftless.
- As the thriftless gold of the babul, so is the gold that we spend Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads
- 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.
- Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.
- If many of them lived on the knife-edge of poverty, it was as much a result of their low wages and unsteady employment as any "thriftless" habits of alcoholism or gambling. NPR Topics: News
- Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
- One Dr F. W. Mott claimed that children born to the pauper, to the alien Jew, to the Irish Roman Catholic, to the thriftless casual labourers, to the criminals all carried a neuropathic taint, a comment echoed by another doctor who claimed that unregulated immigration made Great Britain a dumping ground for the unfit and that England had become the asylum of the world.16 Bedlam
- She focuses on the joys of the old orchard where the trees, ‘long past their prime,’ remain with their ‘boughs… untrimmed in thriftless beauty.’
- 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.