Sentence examples for thriftless from inspiring English sources

In his work, he said, he tried to rescue something from a thriftless society: think of it as a health warning against thoughtless waste.

Many Asian leaders have vivid memories of the lectures they endured in 1997-98 over their thriftless, incompetent economic management, and of the harsh medicine they were forced to swallow in return for IMF assistance.

If you want people to be savvy savers instead of thriftless spenders, you need to get them young and keep them on side throughout life.

His use of anecdote is both masterly and thriftless; he takes episodes around which less skilful writers would have built entire chapters and delivers them in a few perfectly weighted sentences.

"Frankly, it annoys the crap out of me — they're nothing but grasshoppers in the system," Joe said, recalling the fable about the thriftless grasshopper and the provident ant.