spendthrift

How To Use spendthrift In A Sentence

• A prize draw aimed at compulsive spendthrifts has been run by a Chilean bank.
• But she has no intention of changing her spendthrift ways. The Sun
• He is also undutiful to me, besides being a spendthrift and squanderer.
• Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation.
• This is a president who's the biggest spendthrift that I've seen since I've been paying attention in politics.
• Yesterday, I asked my man-servant to bring forth the telephone-device, so that I could give my idiot spendthrift son a stern dressing-down.
• [1894] Padua in Italy they have a stone called the stone of turpitude, near the senate-house, where spendthrifts, and such as disclaim non-payment of debts, do sit with their hinder parts bare, that by that note of disgrace others may be terrified from all such vain expense, or borrowing more than they can tell how to pay. Anatomy of Melancholy
• So even though the Japanese and other Asians have been "good boys, working and saving," the coming slump could hit them even harder than the "spendthrift" Americans. ‘This Makes No Sense’
• He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered. Underworld
• This is an undeclared tax on all users of the currency, which is being used to punish the prudent and enrich the spendthrift. Times, Sunday Times