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spendthrift

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noun

as in wastrel
someone who carelessly spends money the spendthrift managed to blow all of his inheritance in a single year

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Recent Examples of spendthrift
Adjective
Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024 Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child. Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Noun
There is little solace in the fact that its main competition appears to be a leftist bloc dominated by radical socialists whose spendthrift program would explode the French economy. Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 19 June 2024 Major storms could surface if one partner is a spendthrift and the other is a miser. Bruce Helmer and Peg Webb, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spendthrift 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spendthrift
Adjective
  • Rubin’s reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR and Capital & Main has led to state laws protecting workers from lead poisoning and has exposed wasteful spending.
    Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Draws at home to Southampton in November (1-1) and at Leicester in December (2-2) were wasteful, especially in the latter case when a 2-0 lead was relinquished late on.
    Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Henry Muck, suitably nicknamed Prince Hal by his family and friends, may be Industry’s version of the ultimate privileged wastrel.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Atay lingers on the outskirts, keeping the company of workers and wastrels, poets and drunks—all those who refuse the monumental transformations of Turkish society.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Instead, all the adulation is directed toward Charlotte’s prodigal adopted son, the guy who holds more than his share of team records and is considered by many to be the best player in franchise history.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2025
  • After all, there’s always one prodigal — one unstable element who’s removed themself as far as possible from the precarious family mixture.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In some ways, the game was set up for him, with Villa profligate but still regularly creating chances.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The monarchy and the British government, which provides significant financial support for the institution, have long faced a careful balancing act: Both have worked to maintain the pomp and circumstance of the institution while avoiding looking profligate.
    WSJ, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022

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“Spendthrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spendthrift. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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