英:['θrɪftlɪs]
美:['θrɪftlɪs]
英:['θrɪftlɪs]
美:['θrɪftlɪs]
thrift·less
thrIft lihs
thriftlessly (adv.), thriftlessness (n.)
词根:thrift
adj.thrifty 节约的;茂盛的;成功的
adv.thriftily 节俭地;繁茂地;兴旺的
thriftlessly 不节俭地;挥霍地
n.thrift 节俭;节约;[植] 海石竹
thriftiness 茂盛,节俭
adjective
lacking thrift; careless with money; improvident; wasteful.
The first known use of thriftless was in the 15th century
thriftyadjective
doing well because of hard work and thrift : prosperous
growing strongly
thrifty cattle
tending to save money
thriftnoun
careful management especially of money
thriftlessadjective
careless in the handling of money or resources
thriftlessadjective
careless in the handling of money or resources
1 She created for that family a far better home than it had ever known under the shiftless, thriftless management of an undisciplined mother.
2 That they were busy years as regards his trade is certain from the success he achieved in it; and that Ramsay was neither a lazy, thriftless, shiftless, or vicious apprentice his after career effectually proves.
3 a thriftless girl who didn't keep track of her finances and overspent constantly
4 The whole household, for such it seems to be, are poor, very poor; thriftless, unambitious; the men somewhat given to drink to excess; yet the spirit of neighborliness shames criticism.
5 The issuing of rations even to the extent of insuring the Indian against starvation has to a great extent removed the incentive to industry, and the Indian, being an Indian, has remained thriftless and indifferent.
6 “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.
7 If ever there was a poor, moithering, thriftless thing, it's that mother of yours.
8 While he would possess a clear recollection of the thriftless farmer who had dropped the money while ploughing through a hole in his pocket.
9 His father, an easy-going thriftless man, had fixed on no definite profession for him, dimly reckoning on the chance that “something was sure to turn up” when the boy was old enough.
10 But the weak and thriftless Angeli were able neither to find money nor to maintain discipline.
11 Weeds grew apace, and Cassandra had much ado to hold her cousin Cotton Caswell, easy-going and thriftless, to his task of keeping the small farm in order.
12 He does not intend to spend many years in mining, or if he does, he has become thriftless and improvident.
13 I am, you see, a thriftless, wandering adventurer––one who has taken things as they came, and never has been serious.
14 The Creole of the Illinois, contented, light-hearted, and thriftless, by no means fulfilled the injunction to increase and multiply; and the colony languished in spite of the fertile soil.
15 Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
只有贪欲的耻辱,浪费的赞赏。 。
16 The greedy are rebuked in the adage—"The eyes here are bigger than the stomach," and the thoughtless and thriftless are warned that "One may in seeking a farthing burn up three candles."
17 Homeless, shiftless, thriftless, they knew no other names save those which chance or the coarse buffoonery of their friends had endowed them with.
18 The Paston Letters, that unique collection of the private correspondence of a typical family of nouveaux riches, thriftless, pushing, unscrupulous, give us the true picture of the time.
19 These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage.
20 They did not belong to the race which too frequently make thrift a vice, but were descendants of one the world counts thriftless.
1 不节俭的
2 浪费
ill-spent costly lavish extravagant wasteful profuse consumptive dissipative extravagancy wastry loss waste squander dissipation wastage extravagance profusion wasting profligacy dilapidation unthrift fribble footle spend prodigalize diddle lose sport shoot consume spill scatter fiddle perish dissipate confound ware muddle trifle wanton overspend piddle misspend frivol go through hands chuck away diddle away piss away fribble away play away fool away be cast away fling away prodigal free-spending uneconomic dissipated unthrifty wastefully prodigally uneconomically thriftlessly bellyfat dalliance wastefulness lavishness prodigality blow fool putter fritter dilapidate play ducks and drakes squander away down the rathole throw around uneconomical spendthrift dally slather potter haemorrhage drivel dawdle dally away play ducks and drakes with make away with like water expensive flush squanderingly blue burn pour melt
4 无用
no-good recrementitious no-dice dead waste refuse unnecessary useless idle unwanted straw punk worthless wasted futile unworthy dud sleeveless unprofitable ineffectual unworkable crusted valueless brain-dead unserviceable good-for-nothing inexpert limp-wristed otiose bootless footling inutile losel unuseful orra crocky us uselessly vanity futility naught beggar not much chop unprevalent negative needless fruitless trashy impotent feckless ne'er-do-well nugatory excrescent piffling wimpish chaffy unprevailing fruitlessly unhelpfully uselessness disutility paralyze go for nothing of no use do no good
5 不节约的
7 不兴旺的
8 无价值
no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare peanut crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless riffraff frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking vanity nothingness naught nothing up to putty no chop not worth a cracker blow on slim tin trivial mediocre insignificant nought dross scummy pelting piddling inconsequent draff small-beer insignificance unworthiness wallpaperize nullify
9 奢侈
Lucullian high rich luxury costly luxurious lavish extravagant sumptuous Lucullan extravagantly prodigally extravagance luxe unthrift
10 无意义的
empty irrelevant nonsense vacant pointless meaningless insignificant senseless nonsensical inane facile vacuous purposeless unmeaning piffling
11 无意义
empty irrelevant nonsense vacant pointless meaningless insignificant senseless nonsensical inane facile vacuous purposeless unmeaning piffling nothingness insignificance meaninglessness inanity pointlessness fecklessness nothing
12 无用的
no-good recrementitious no-dice dead waste refuse unnecessary useless idle unwanted straw punk worthless wasted futile unworthy dud sleeveless unprofitable ineffectual unworkable crusted valueless brain-dead unserviceable good-for-nothing inexpert limp-wristed otiose bootless footling inutile losel unuseful orra crocky us naught unprevalent negative needless fruitless trashy impotent feckless ne'er-do-well nugatory excrescent piffling wimpish chaffy unprevailing
13 不繁茂的
14 浪费的
ill-spent costly lavish extravagant wasteful profuse consumptive dissipative prodigal free-spending uneconomic dissipated unthrifty free lost uneconomical spendthrift like water expensive flush
15 无价值的
no-good no-account puckeroo stramineous light bad sorry refuse nowhere bare peanut crap idle invalid straw null punk worthless dusty crappy bum queer careless shitty vile unworthy jazzy frothy trashy slushy leaden valueless riffraff frippery good-for-nothing schlub nugatory fustian picayune rinky-dink twopenny footling rubbishy unvalued chaffy drossy footle bastardly indign pistareen cotton-picking naught not worth a cracker slim tin trivial mediocre insignificant nought dross scummy pelting piddling inconsequent draff small-beer