| Owing to her father's thriftlessness, she had to earn her living by teaching. |
| The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness, and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent. |
| The root cause of poverty was not thriftlessness but insufficiency of wages. |
| For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness. |
| It is, however, in a sad state of repair, and the evidences of neglect and thriftlessness are apparent everywhere. |
| Thrift and thriftlessness mean the same thing in this town, where I noticed that even Nonconformist chapels, with broken windows, had been left to the rats and birds. |
