Sentence:  By the smaller section of it—poor, unthrifty, <WSD>loose-handed</WSD> fools—who belied the province of their birth so far as to be quick to spend and slow to save, and who therefore fell into want and famine and had to borrow of others their children's bread, the old miller was hated with a hate deeper and stronger because foced to be mute, and to submit, to cringe, and to be trod upon, in the miserable servitude of the hopeless debtor. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Spendthrift, profligate.