spendthrift

[ spend-thrift ]

/ ˈspɛndˌθrɪft /

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noun

a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.

adjective

wastefully extravagant; prodigal.

OTHER WORDS FOR spendthrift

2 wasteful, improvident, profligate.

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Origin of spendthrift

First recorded in 1595–1605; spend + thrift

Words nearby spendthrift

spend, spendable, spender, spending money, spends, spendthrift, spendthrift trust, Spener, Spengler, Spenser, Spenserian

How to use spendthrift in a sentence

The hardest parts of the pandemic will pass, but the question is whether consumers will return to their spendthrift ways — revolving high-interest credit card debt.
Millions of consumers paid down their credit card balances during the pandemic. Let’s keep this trend going.|Michelle Singletary|May 21, 2021|Washington Post
For those spendthrifts whose incomes weren’t affected by the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic pause created an opportunity for them to change their ways.
With vaccinations underway, the economy needs consumers to spend again. But don’t, if you have debt.|Michelle Singletary|February 26, 2021|Washington Post
Trying to keep up with spendthrift friends or neighbors is a never-ending game with no true winners.
The 20 most important personal finance laws to live by|Ben Carlson|December 8, 2020|Fortune
“We are, both you and I, equally thoughtless, spendthrift and extravagant … We are damned poor,” he wrote her in 1898.
This Week’s Hot Reads: May 29, 2012|Jimmy So|May 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Despite all this, Andrew still allows the spendthrift Fergie, NFI at the Royal Wedding, to live with him when she is England.
Intrigue and Plot Over Andrew's Indian Visit|Tom Sykes|May 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
If this is a pinchpenny conservative, what is a spendthrift liberal?
How Obama Can Buy Off Mitch McConnell|John Batchelor|January 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
She is so careful with her cash that she makes the Sage of Omaha look a positive spendthrift.
The Lost Madonna Tapes|Andrew Morton|October 20, 2008|DAILY BEAST
A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Algernon Deuceace, you don't want a father to tell you that you are a swindler and a spendthrift!
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush|William Makepeace Thackeray
He occasionally doles out a little praise, but usually shows himself a spendthrift in censure and abuse.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson
Spendthrift man and spendthrift Nation must face at last the same law carrying the same penalty.
Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress|Various

British Dictionary definitions for spendthrift

spendthrift

/ (ˈspɛndˌθrɪft) /

noun

a person who spends money in an extravagant manner

adjective

(usually prenominal) of or like a spendthriftspendthrift economies

Word Origin for spendthrift

C17: from spend + thrift

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