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
Let no one suppose, from reading this, that I was become a careless squanderer.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Hunt, Henry
Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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
He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
