spendthrift

Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni said Thursday that the results offer the “latest evidence that consumers have continued their spendthrift ways.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

“With a spendthrift trust, creditors and lawsuits cannot access the funds, and your child cannot demand early payouts. Instead, the trustee manages distributions based on your specified terms.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026

No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent, which can be important if your heir is a minor child, a spendthrift or someone reliant on public benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024

These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

I will uphold his wishes, but if I outlive him and there’s no agreement in place, I would likely give little to nothing to his children because they are irresponsible spendthrifts.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Clearing her throat, she started to read aloud: “Workers earn it, spendthrifts burn it, bankers lend it.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

I heard my generation was full of squanderers and spendthrifts, but this really does take the avocado.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

The reason massive stars are such spendthrifts is that, as we saw above, the rate of fusion depends very strongly on the star’s core temperature.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Like the arrant spendthrifts that we were, money was no object to us so long as our fortune lasted.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith