Definition of "thriftiest" []

• Superlative form of thrifty: most thrifty. (adjective)

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• "Kelley criticizes scholars who, in attempting to counter racist stereotypes, “are often too quick to invert them, remaking the black proletariat into the hardest-working, thriftiest, most efficient labor force around.”"
• "Instead textbooks show African Americans of the era as the hardest-working, thriftiest, most sober, and family oriented of all Americans."
• "The thriftiest savers, cautious souls who had shunned the stock market as reckless speculation, saw their carefully tended nest eggs vanish overnight as banks collapsed."