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ADJECTIVE
  1. careless of the future

How To Use thriftless In A Sentence

  • Piney-woods people" was the local name for the tackies, the clay eaters, the no-accounts, that had settled about on the poorer lands in that section of Georgia, and given themselves over to thriftlessness for good and all. Stories Of Georgia
  • Rural Maori were concerned about absenteeism in employment, thriftlessness, marital instability, crime and delinquency’ which that situation engendered.
  • a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste
  • Owing to her father's thriftlessness, she had to earn her living by teaching.
  • They are not the only body to be concerned about the thriftlessness of the young.
  • For neither in this chapter nor anywhere in Christ's teaching is there one word against what we call forethought, and they who would find in the words of Jesus any encouragement to thriftlessness are but misrepresenting Him and deceiving themselves. The Teaching of Jesus
  • It is, however, in a sad state of repair, and the evidences of neglect and thriftlessness are apparent everywhere.
  • For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness.
  • Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless.
  • he lives thriftlessly from day to day
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