squander
verb (used with object)
to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed byaway ).
squanderer
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a word derived from
squander.
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
Then he will not be a squanderer of his strength, in spheres where no one is grateful to him.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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 Evelyn Raymond
A hundred people would lend me money, or to any man who has not the reputation of a squanderer.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
Oh, youth's a thriftless squanderer, It's easy come and spent, And heavy is the going now Where once the light foot went.
From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite
