spendthrift
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What kind of spendthrift picks a completely needless fight with one of the last banks in town willing to lend him money?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent, which can be important if your heir is a minor child, a spendthrift or someone reliant on public benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024
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
How can I persuade my parents not to be spendthrifts on our dime?
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
The reason massive stars are such spendthrifts is that, as we saw above, the rate of fusion depends very strongly on the star’s core temperature.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Rich spendthrifts, who spend every dollar they have in the present, will wind up paying taxes on their total income, as per usual.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2011
He lived according to the manner of unprospering spendthrifts; repented not, lamented not.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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