spendthrift

Example Sentences

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“I don’t want it to sound like they were being stupid or spendthrift. They were doing the right thing to respond to these problems,” Noble said Friday.

From Seattle Times

"People have remembered her as being eccentric, grumpy, prickly. She gets accused of being both a miser and a spendthrift - and that she did unpleasant things."

From BBC

I am not a spendthrift, for sure, but I haven’t been frugal either, and I sometimes feel guilty because I think maybe I should have been.

From New York Times

Do you set unrealistic expectations to make up for your spendthrift parent?

From Seattle Times

It’s the color of the Virgin Mary’s robe, used in the Impressionists’ sumptuous seas and skies, favored by a depressed Picasso and a spendthrift Vermeer.

From Washington Post