spendthrift
Example Sentences
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A spendthrift trust “prevents your child from selling, borrowing against, or misusing their inheritance,” Cote says.
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
Chantel Chapman, a 40-year-old entrepreneur in Richmond, British Columbia, was once a spendthrift in this way.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
The last was in 1821, for the rotund, spendthrift George IV. One of the reasons it was the last?
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023
At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
