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Meaning of THRIFTILY

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 Definition: [adv]  in a thrifty manner; "a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket"
 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Thrift"i*ly\, adv.
1. In a thrifty manner.

2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.]

         A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret
         [greeted].                            --Chaucer.

 

 

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