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
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
He is what is called a squanderer of money.
From Essays on Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat
Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that—sacrificing?
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
