thriftless

Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers.

“I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans.

Amidst that great household, where the thriftless habits of the master had descended to the servants, and rendered all reckless and wasteful alike, Darby had thriven and grown almost rich.

He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy.

The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals.