thriftless

It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was.

On the whole, a man must not complain of his 'element," or his 'time' or the like; it is thriftless work doing so.

We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate.

In a week the Speaker of the Commons invoked a convention from 1604, some two years before the playwright's treatise on the dangers of "thriftless ambition" is thought to have been adapted for the stage, Shakespeare's epic Scottish tragedy is as apt as ever.

This idea makes the girl appear thriftless and ruining, while an opposing image of the man appears to a victim and an innocent figure.

We will never be free until we free ourselves from the prison of our own false thoughts, the natural tendency of being thriftless, easily excitable, lacking self-control and foresight without the apprehension for the future or grief of the past.

Faruqi regrets that some European and even Indian writers have denigrated the nawabs of the state for being 'lecherous, effeminate, thriftless and exploiters of their subjects.' Even Munshi Premchand, in his 1924 short story Shatranj Ki Baazi [The Chess Move] portrays Nawab Wajid Ali Shah with a tinge of bias, which becomes more evident in Shatranj Ke Khilari [The Chess Players] Satyajit Ray's 1978 cinematic adaptation of the story.

Americanization programs based upon academic and popular literature tended to reinforce the stereotypes of Mexicans as dirty, shiftless, lazy, irresponsible, unambitious, thriftless, fatalistic, selfish, promiscuous, and prone to drinking, violence, and criminal behavior.