unthrift
English
Noun
unthrift (countable and uncountable, plural unthrifts)
- A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
- (now rare) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 9
- Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...
- 1633, John Donne, "The Autumnall":
- But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke;
- Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 9
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