spendthrift

Example Sentences

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When it became clear mom was nearing the end of her life, I suggested she set up a spendthrift trust to protect his inheritance.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 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

The last was in 1821, for the rotund, spendthrift George IV. One of the reasons it was the last?

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2023

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 • Feb. 22, 2022

Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith