Sentence examples for unthrifty from inspiring English sources

Dr. O'Hara's early death and unthrifty estate management, it might be said, extended John's social education, through his jobs in local journalism, to much more eventual profit than admission to the young man's envisioned paradise of Yale and its clubs would have.

The device of withholding tax money, which is clearly confiscatory, tacitly brands him as negligent or unthrifty or immature or incompetent or dishonest, or all of those things at once.

It was scheduled to have its official ribbon cutting on Friday with decidedly unthrifty hoopla: live radio coverage, discounts, refreshments and prizes.

As for the other 11 points of the Scout Law, Mr. Shields could not say whether anyone had been ejected for being untrustworthy, disloyal, unhelpful, unfriendly, discourteous, unkind, disobedient, cheerless, unthrifty, cowardly or sloppy.