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They knew he was thrifty because he filled the basement walls with rocks to save on the cost of cement, and every spring, water seeped through the cracks until the basement flooded ankle-deep.† (source)
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My father has always been a thrifty man, but our financial problems after the revolution thrust him onto a new plane of existence, a universe with the motto "I'll fix it myself."† (source)
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It was only Aunt Martha's thriftiness that enabled Uncle Max to keep it open.† (source)
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Mrs. V explains to Mom how this is exactly right for me, and Mom, instead of being practical and sensible and thrifty like she usually is, seems to agree.† (source)
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I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord.† (source)
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And Doro was thrifty her whole life, so she doesn't need the money.† (source)
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They had not established their position skilfully enough, or perhaps they were too thrifty.† (source)
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The day is coming when great nations will find their numbers dwindling from census to census; when the six roomed villa will rise in price above the family mansion; when the viciously reckless poor and the stupidly pious rich will delay the extinction of the race only by degrading it; whilst the boldly prudent, the thriftily selfish and ambitious, the imaginative and poetic, the lovers of money and solid comfort, the worshippers of success, art, and of love, will all oppose to the Force of Life the device of sterility.† (source)
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Posted separately, the "homespun" was a copy of John Quincy's Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, but before it could arrive, Jefferson had concluded that it must be some article of home-produced clothing, and so in reply to Adams wrote at length about the virtues of the spinning jenny and loom, and of the thriftiness of household manufactures.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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And more quietly, soberly, in this crowd, moved the older thriftier workmen: the true carpenters, the true masons, the true mechanics— the canny Scotch-Irish of North Carolina, the fishermen of the Virginia coast, the careful peasantry of the Middle-West, who had come to earn, to save, to profit from the war.† (source)
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or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood—at the head, I say, of this dilapidated wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the row of buildings, the track of many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick.† (source)unthrifty = wastefulstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unthrifty means not and reverses the meaning of thrifty. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Where the crust on the bread his mother bought was stiff and thick as card-board, this had a pliant yielding skin, thin as the thriftiest potato paring or the strip one unwound from a paper lead-pencil.† (source)
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And if a man will ask them privily, Why they be clothed so unthriftily,* *shabbily They right anon will rownen* in his ear, *whisper And sayen, if that they espied were, Men would them slay, because of their science: Lo, thus these folk betrayen innocence!† (source)unthriftily = in a wasteful mannerstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unthriftily means not and reverses the meaning of thriftily. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Then the screen changes to a menu of four choices: OUR SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES-THRIFTY BUT SANITARY STANDARD FACILITIES-JUST LIKE HOME-MAYBE JUST A LITTLE BETTER PRIME FACILITIES-A GRACIOUS PLACE FOR ThE DISCRIMINATING PATRON ThE LAVATORY GRANDE ROYALE He has to override a well-worn reflex to stop himself from automatically punching SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES, which is what he and all the other U-Stor-It residents always use.† (source)
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Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.† (source)
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And there lay a small piece of broken hacksaw blade, the tiny length of steel that he'd picked up in his thriftiness at the building site without any intention of bringing it to camp.† (source)
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