squanderer

Example Sentences

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Benjamin Franklin, no squanderer of time, would be impressed by the schedules kept by today's children.

From Time Magazine Archive

I warrant she’s clean out of medicine an money, for she’s a regular squanderer when it comes to makin’ rag rugs.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn

I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that—sacrificing?

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

No squanderer of money on common folk was he.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Press, Muriel A.C.

In contact with his own family Walter was no squanderer of words.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth