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
- Government to pull the reins on 'spendthrift' ministers
- Let's hope so ...... the spendthrift is bankrupting the country.
- To start with, his popular reputation as a careless spendthrift is untrue.
- He has been described as a spendthrift and gambler, and as one scarcely honest in his extravagance and gambling.
- I voted for McGinn and the notion that he's the fiscally responsible one and Dively's a spendthrift is moronic. sister Loura
- South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun has been described as a spendthrift "socialist" by the head of emerging markets at Goldman Sachs.
- So even though the Japanese and other Asians have been "good boys, working and saving," the coming slump could hit them even harder than the "spendthrift" Americans.
- He suddenly HAD recalled the spendthrift Delatour perfectly, and as quickly regretted now that he had not doubled the honorarium he had just sent to his portionless daughter.
- At the crowing of the cock, the extravagant and erring spirit (that is, the spendthrift of a defendant) whether he be drinking arrack punch at Vauxhall, champaigne at the Mount, or brandy and water at the Eccentries, must kick off his glass-slipper, and hobble back to St. George's Fields, like the lame bottle-conjuror of Le Sage.
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