squanderer

Example Sentences

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Benjamin Franklin, no squanderer of time, would be impressed by the schedules kept by today's children.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it comes to her more valuable products, Nature is not such a reckless squanderer after all.

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John

Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

In contact with his own family Walter was no squanderer of words.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth

A hundred people would lend me money, or to any man who has not the reputation of a squanderer.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan