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spendthrift

[ spend-thrift ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

wastefully extravagant; prodigal.
Synonyms: profligate, improvident, wasteful

spendthrift

/ ˈspɛndˌθrɪft /

First recorded in 1595–1605; spend + thrift

C17: from spend + thrift

“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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