thriftless如何读

英:['θrɪftlɪs]

美:['θrɪftlɪs]

thriftless是什么意思

  • adj.不节俭的;无储蓄心的;浪费的

thriftless自然拼读

thrift·less

thrIft lihs

thriftless扩展

thriftlessly (adv.), thriftlessness (n.)

thriftless词根

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

thriftless英英释义

adjective

lacking thrift; careless with money; improvident; wasteful.

thriftless词源英文解释

The first known use of thriftless was in the 15th century

thriftless儿童词典英英释义

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

thriftless 例句

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.

thriftless 同义词

1 不节俭的

unchary improvident unthrifty

3 不节约

unthrifty unthrift

5 不节约的

unthrifty

7 不兴旺的

languid

13 不繁茂的

unthrifty

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