spendthrift
IPA: spˈɛndθrɪft
noun
- Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
- (figuratively) Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.
adjective
- Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.
- Extravagant or lavish.
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Examples of "spendthrift" in Sentences
- It is Albert's spendthrift lifestyle.
- Unoka was a coward and a spendthrift.
- She is a spendthrift and he is a miser.
- The stallion stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky.
- His spendthrift habits dissipated the family fortune.
- During this visit he gained a reputation as a spendthrift and a rake.
- He was a profligate spendthrift of energy and strength, of nerve force.
- He was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is made out to be.
- After this Lewis Tresham, a spendthrift, lost the remaining family wealth.
- He was a spendthrift gambler, with an interest in farming on the Woburn estate.