Definition of "thriftily" [thrift•i•ly]

• In a thrifty manner, economically. (adverb)

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• "Hugging this sophistry to her breast, and still searching for love, she believes him until the day of realisation dawns upon her -- old and broken and bitter-hearted, with scarcely a friend left in the world, and not even the compensating coin thriftily demanded by her sister of the streets."
• "Efficiency and decoupling have helped California to consume electricity far more thriftily than the rest of America."
• "I am optimistic that the next generation in Britain will see the need to live thriftily, frugally, and within their means and will buckle down to doing that and, being human, probably make Virtue of Necessity."