squanderer

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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

He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

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

True, the picture here is mainly that of confidence that the wife is no squanderer of her husband's goods, but the sweet thought goes far beyond the immediate application.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

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