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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

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

What a squanderer of unconsidered hours you are, Diana!

From The Splendid Folly by Pedler, Margaret

I warrant she’s clean out of medicine an money, for she’s a regular squanderer when it comes to makin’ rag rugs.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn

No squanderer of money on common folk was he.

From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Press, Muriel A.C.