spendthrift

What kind of spendthrift picks a completely needless fight with one of the last banks in town willing to lend him money?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

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

At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Here’s what typically happens to spendthrifts who clear their debt.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

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

Literary men are sad spendthrifts, not only of their money, but of themselves.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various