This thriftless slave of passion, this child-man, this much condemned clog to the progress of Southern civilization is called the vagrant Negro.
Mony wyte their wife for their ain thriftless life.
Secondly, when our fancy is catering for thriftless barbarians, we must remember that the good years will not compensate for the bad.
But we have every reason to suppose that in the first half of the eleventh century a fortunate ceorl had many opportunities of amassing land and of thriving at the expense of his thriftless or unlucky neighbours.
Learmont was a collected and an urbane character, and did much to temper and turn aside the thriftlessordinances of his superior.
So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd; And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.
Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things.
I promised the commons that you would need no supplies for so thriftless a war.
The futile and thriftless yet busy and self-important king was one of those sovereigns who irritate their subjects into opposition by injudicious activity.
There was a point beyond which it was unwise to provoke the baronage or the commons, and, unlike his flighty and thriftless father, he knew where that point came.
But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals.
All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry's irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure.
The thriftless and ostentatious Khedive Ismail, by his extravagance and oppression at home and his unwise conquests in the Soudan, had reduced Egypt to a state of misery, and seemed not far from bankruptcy.
His rise and success freed England from the thriftless rule of Henry, and set a boundary to the use of the royal prerogative.
The mighty warrior and statesman begot a shiftless, thriftless craven, who did his best to bring to wrack and ruin all that his sire had built up.
The well-to-do and well-disposed tenants are coerced by the thriftless and shiftless.
I take shame to say that in our capital such and so various are the means of thriftless folly, that to give gold to youth is giving fuel to fire, and furnishing them with the means of self-destruction.
I know thou wilt not go a step farther to the devil than thou art justly considered for--thou wert paid to create illness, and wouldst esteem it thriftless prodigality to do murder at the same price.
A few lazy and thriftless Indians, lying in the sun here and there, were all the inhabitants of the place I could see.
The propertied classes is at the mercy of the thriftless classes," he remarked, with martyr-pride.
His tawny mane, his pose of untaught genius, his verses in the poet's corner of the paper could not for ever keep afloat this untaught and thriftless portrait-painter of twenty.
It may be interesting to note that this is the ideal that Mr. Roosevelt himself proposes, and he objects to Socialism because he thinks Socialism will on the contrary allow the "thriftless and the vicious" to profit.
Away, away, thou thriftless loone, I swear thou gettest no alms of me; For if we shold hang any losel here, The first we would begin with thee.
Want of occupation breeds mischief, idleness being a thriftless carle that leaves the house empty, and the door open to the next comer--an opportunity of which the enemy is sure to avail himself.
The Irish levies, in a state of more lax discipline, were collected in merry groups, whiling away the time in thriftless and noisy discourse.
If he took this course, it is probable that most of them would spend all in thriftless waste and indolence, or in mere physical enjoyments.
Away, away, thou thriftless loone, I swear thou gettest no almes of mee; For if we shold hang any losel heere, The first we wold begin with thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thriftless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: feckless; grasshopper; heedless; improvident; negligent; shiftless; thoughtless
