spendthrift
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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
A spendthrift trust “prevents your child from selling, borrowing against, or misusing their inheritance,” Cote says.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 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
Chantel Chapman, a 40-year-old entrepreneur in Richmond, British Columbia, was once a spendthrift in this way.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Because she fell for words like fresh-picked and vine-ripened, our mother was defined as a spendthrift.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
Two curmudgeonly old rivals, reclusive spendthrifts, are marching toward a showdown that a lot of people really wish wasn’t happening.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Sacrifice sheer consumer quantity in favor of quality spendthrifts?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
I heard my generation was full of squanderers and spendthrifts, but this really does take the avocado.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018
It turned the culprits into spendthrifts and pleasure-seekers; their arrogance and deficiency of culture, and their ostentation, became especially offensive to their own fellow-citizens.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
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