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spendthrift

noun as in person careless with money

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Their more spendthrift mood spells continued strain for supply chains, which were struggling to fill orders even at lower levels of spending.

From Quartz

China has pegged its economic future on its spendthrift consumer class.

From Quartz

The hardest parts of the pandemic will pass, but the question is whether consumers will return to their spendthrift ways — revolving high-interest credit card debt.

For those spendthrifts whose incomes weren’t affected by the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic pause created an opportunity for them to change their ways.

Trying to keep up with spendthrift friends or neighbors is a never-ending game with no true winners.

From Fortune

“We are, both you and I, equally thoughtless, spendthrift and extravagant … We are damned poor,” he wrote her in 1898.

Despite all this, Andrew still allows the spendthrift Fergie, NFI at the Royal Wedding, to live with him when she is England.

If this is a pinchpenny conservative, what is a spendthrift liberal?

She is so careful with her cash that she makes the Sage of Omaha look a positive spendthrift.

A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."

Algernon Deuceace, you don't want a father to tell you that you are a swindler and a spendthrift!

He occasionally doles out a little praise, but usually shows himself a spendthrift in censure and abuse.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Spendthrift man and spendthrift Nation must face at last the same law carrying the same penalty.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spendthrift, such as: prodigal, profligate, spender, sport, squanderer, and waster.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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