Example Sentences

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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

Two curmudgeonly old rivals, reclusive spendthrifts, are marching toward a showdown that a lot of people really wish wasn’t happening.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Sacrifice sheer consumer quantity in favor of quality spendthrifts?

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

I heard my generation was full of squanderers and spendthrifts, but this really does take the avocado.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2018

Royalty, princely houses, and nobility with twenty quarterings, are jostled in the indiscriminate crowd with houseless adventurers, beggared spendthrifts, and ruined debauchees.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James