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careful and diligent in the use of money or other resources

The thrifty man had gathered up the bits of gouged-out wood and taken them home.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

He was thrifty and energetic.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Mr. Wine said the way he showed me how to sharpen the pencil was the thrifty way.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
She'll decide to be thrifty and offend Frey with a paltry sacrifice.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
These poor Christians are not thrifty like our country people at home; they have no veneration for property, no sense of material values.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
In this cheap and thrifty way Sir Pitt tries to pay off his debt to his family.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Yet she could talk about being thrifty in Mexico.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
He was sober, thrifty and pious; he went to the altar every first Friday, sometimes with her, oftener by himself.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
He was becoming impatient to get away on his journey now; however, he was not to lose this thrifty dame's society so easily.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
I told my wife, "she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing."
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
Then who so pleasing, thrifty, and satisfactory in every way as Elizabeth-Jane?
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
He was too thrifty to use one when it could possibly be avoided.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
They had not established their position skilfully enough, or perhaps they were too thrifty.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Yesterday, at Thrifty Car Rental in downtown D.C., she felt like she was walking a tightrope.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
He scorned the improvident, and now the improvident would be just as good as the careful, the sound, the thrifty.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
When near at hand he saw that the rancher was a thrifty farmer.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
Carol had a suspicion that the thriftier housewives made the afternoon treat do for evening supper.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
"Thrifty man!" cried the doctor.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island

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