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Example Sentences

We doubt the thrifty royals will go that far though somehow.

Also, InLightened: You seem to lament that people aren't as thrifty and disciplined as they were in the old days.

CBS is a close, penny-pinching second, and CNBC wins the thrifty award for cable.

Now all the royals have to do is make the wedding of the year look thrifty.

He cites the thrifty values of his father, a Greek immigrant, as the inspiration for his advocacy for their national equivalent.

There are some other trees planted, and many small, thrifty forests, such as I had hardly seen before on the Continent.

Little Rye was sown, but that little is very good; Barley is suffering from the stormy weather, but is quite thrifty.

An offer which Jane received from a very honest, industrious, and thrifty jeweler, aroused anew a mother's maternal solicitude.

We were everywhere favorably impressed with the Welsh people as being thrifty and intelligent.

One was a hollow tree literally filled with walnuts, gathered presumably by a thrifty squirrel the previous fall.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thrifty, such as: frugal, prudent, stingy, canny, careful, and chary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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