unthrift

plural unthrifts

1. countableuncountableA lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
2. archaiccountableuncountableSomeone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.

   Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...

   1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 9”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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   My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree

   c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

   But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke; Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...

   1633, John Donne, The Autumnall

comparative more unthrift · superlative most unthrift

1. Unthrifty.

   VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]

   1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso