| 单词 | thriftlessness |
| 例句 | The place has obviously degenerated since his time; an air of shabbiness and thriftlessness prevails, and ancient smells by no means suggestive of "the odors of Araby the blest" obtrude upon the pilgrim. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The two men were as unlike as possible in their habits of work, Dekker having apparently all the thriftlessness and impecunious shamelessness of Micawber himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z England seems to share with Japan the amiable thriftlessness of giving up much land to growth which is not intended to serve any base utilitarian purpose at all. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z They have taught him to cultivate his mind rather than his food plantation, and they have given him no immediate punishment for thriftlessness and disobedience to take the place of the old club law. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z In spite of the dirt, the darkness, the unsanitary conditions of this house, the thriftlessness and ignorance of the tenants, there is a spirit of neighborliness in it that puts the critical to blush. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z They all yielded to this,—the strong, the intelligent, the diligent, submitting to their family, though they knew that their hard-earned pay was going to support weakness, heathenism, and thriftlessness. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z The poor man had received many hard knocks from the iron hand of misfortune and had become almost wholly disheartened, which led to carelessness and thriftlessness, and besides, he was illiterate and unpolished. Abraham Lincoln's Religion 2011-09-03T02:00:20.697Z Randal.—"Ah, sir, it often takes the energy of generations to repair the thriftlessness and extravagance of a single owner." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Yet disfranchisement for ignorance, for thriftlessness, and vice all together are acknowledged to be insufficient, and resort must be had again to manipulation, juggling, and confessed dishonesty. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Not thriftlessness, but unselfishness, may leave them penniless in old age. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Having thus impoverished Ireland, Englishmen based their case against Irish claims to self-government on the thriftlessness of its people. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z This thriftlessness can be overcome only by a strong public sentiment that corrects the early tendencies of youth to waste of means and energy. Rural Health and Welfare The blight of poverty and thriftlessness had fallen upon it. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart With the inborn thriftlessness of the Indian, at the articles of essential worth they only glanced, after which they turned aside from them. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin The same thriftlessness which makes a family accept charity without question is the cause of their generosity. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z She was always ready to excuse Biddy's thriftlessness and Ike's mischief, helping them on in their duties constantly. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Ignorance and thriftlessness in a community of laborers operates in the same way. Rural Health and Welfare He never could be made to feel that by these spontaneous generosities he was encouraging145 thriftlessness and mendicancy. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization No, my friend, it is not true that the poverty of the poor is due to their sins, thriftlessness and intemperance. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg This perhaps explains much that is counted as thriftlessness. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z It hid itself away in the woods from very shame of its thriftlessness. David Malcolm The thriftlessness of rich men's sons is more damaging than the thriftlessness of tramps, because it is more tempting to others. Rural Health and Welfare I shall no doubt be told that what I have just written has an immoral tendency, and is a direct encouragement to sloth, thriftlessness, etc. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women She lived in a chronic state of wonder over the laziness, the thriftlessness, and the dirt of Englishwomen. Good Old Anna Could Creole thriftlessness have been abolished and the slave trade retained, the ruin of the estates might have been averted. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy An insurance policy has often changed the habits of an entire family from thriftlessness and spendthrift tendencies to thrift and order. Pushing to the Front She said that a helpless thriftlessness was at the root of the matter. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Hamilton was poor, Judith the mainstay of a household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb. Judith of the Plains She penetrated the homes of the cottagers, she tasted of their foods, she rated them on uncleanliness, drunkenness, and thriftlessness; she lectured them on cooking. The Imaginary Marriage Even baby cuckoos were a joy to her, though, on their foster-mothers' accounts she resented the thriftlessness of their parents, and grew tired each year of their monotonous call which ceased not day or night. A Maid of the Silver Sea Education has almost banished drunkenness from Germany; and had England no drunkenness, no thriftlessness, no reckless multiplication, our social miseries would be comparatively trivial. Thrift He knew Davenport's capacity—that nowhere could he have found another such a brilliant genius in conjuring—nor, apart from his thriftlessness, any one so thoroughly reliable. The Sorcery Club It was with him that their parents 121 resided, and frequent were his appeals to Lincoln to extricate him from some pecuniary strait into which he had fallen through his confirmed thriftlessness and improvidence. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Let no thoughtlessness nor carelessness nor thriftlessness get in. Quiet Talks with World Winners The cotton farmers of the South, especially the negro farmers, have been forced by debt and thriftlessness into a one-crop policy that is now seen to be wasteful in the long run. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II Surely it ought not to be so difficult to put an end to the Satanic influences of thriftlessness, drunkenness, and improvidence! Thrift Habits of thriftlessness and laziness were engendered among the free population, and their social relations corrupted. Government and Administration of the United States It is not drink, nor thriftlessness, nor immorality, as the philanthropists do vainly talk; still less is it crime. Essays in Rebellion The son of the soil in France may want carpets, wardrobes, clean swept hearths: he at least owns a home from which only imprudence or thriftlessness can eject him. The Roof of France There she spoke, with a censure no doubt deserved, of thriftlessness and ingratitude. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty The intense selfishness, thriftlessness, and folly of these highly paid operatives, is scarcely credible. Thrift In the classes just above the "very poor," 68 per cent. of poverty is attributed to "questions of employment," and only 13 per cent. to drink and thriftlessness. Problems of Poverty The great vagabond piper, McDonough, master of wonderful music, returns from wandering, to find his wife dead, and, because of his thriftlessness, about to be denied honorable burial. Halleck's New English Literature Laziness, irresponsibility, and thriftlessness figure in from ten to fifteen per cent of charity cases. Problems in American Democracy Dissipation and thriftlessness are two of the chief causes of dependency. Community Civics and Rural Life Men are easily led away by the parade of their miseries, which are for the most part voluntary and self-imposed,—the results of idleness, thriftlessness, intemperance, and misconduct. Thrift Sidney, you remember that man we once went to hear lecture, the man that talked of nothing but the thriftlessness of the poor, and how it was their own fault they suffered? The Nether World "Are you afraid of growing ugly that you are saving money?" was a speech of Florine's to Mariette, which may give a clue to one cause of this thriftlessness. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life To show the thriftlessness of the people, Mr. Sikes mentioned the following instance. Thrift It provides many honest pleasures, of which thriftlessness and extravagance deprive us. Thrift While it lasted, Lord Elcho went over to Tranent—a village in East Lothian—to address the colliers upon their thriftlessness, their idleness, and their attempted combinations to keep up the price of coal. Thrift |
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