Vocabulary Word
Word: thrifty
Definition: careful about money; economical; N. thrift
Definition: careful about money; economical; N. thrift
Sentences Containing 'thrifty'
Some thrifty housewives economize by utilizing the cooling effects of evaporation.
Chapter 58 On the Upper River THE big towns drop in, thick and fast, now: and between stretch processions of thrifty farms, not desolate solitude.
I told my wife, “she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing.” In short, I behaved myself so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain’s opinion when he first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits.
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