другие переводы
| расточительный |
wasteful
lavish
prodigal
extravagant
profligate
thriftless
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| неэкономный |
uneconomical
thriftless
|
| бесхозяйственный |
thriftless
|
| невыгодный |
disadvantageous
unprofitable
thriftless
|
примеры использования
Today we tend to dismiss the moralizing of the late Victorians who insisted that the unemployed were lazy, intemperate, or thriftless .
This certainly was ‘a thriftless sort of charity’, to use his own phrase, which did not cause him much sacrifice, although he was generous in absolute terms.
A certain disillusion is perhaps necessary for the practice of conversation: it is the art of the thriftless genius, appropriate to the brilliant failure, the genius manqué, and the inebriate.
Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
The U.S. Congressional Record quotes an unnamed speaker as saying ‘an idle and thriftless race of savages cannot be permitted to stand guard at the treasure vaults of the nation which hold our gold and silver.’
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