Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a thrifty manner;
- Example: "a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thriftily \Thrift"i*ly\ (thr[i^]ft"[i^]*l[y^]), adv.
1. In a thrifty manner.
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2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.]
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A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret
[greeted]. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
thriftily
adv 1: 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"