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.

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