unthrift

noun /ˈʌnθɹɪft/

1. A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.

   countable, uncountable

2. Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.

   archaic, countable, uncountable

   For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree

   My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,

Where it comes from

From Middle English unthrift, equivalent to un- + thrift.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry unthrift (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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