spendthrift
Example Sentences
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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.
When the left returns to power, it will return to its spendthrift and inflationary ways without a monetary reform that makes it harder than printing more pesos.
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
And his book also took a decidedly conservative view – describing them as chronic spendthrifts, dependent on welfare payments and mostly failing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
From BBC
The U.S. government is hardly a spendthrift with arts dollars, but what if it were to pony up for the industry again?
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
