Sentence example with the word 'spendthrift'

spendthrift

big-time spender, easy come, extravagant, incontinent, lavish, overlavish, penny-wise and pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spend-all, squanderer, wasteful, wastethrift

Definition adj. recklessly wasteful

Last update: January 18, 2017


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That might be true, but there was no point in working at becoming a spendthrift simply because he had money.   [noun]

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"The exchequer Rowley draws upon should be as deep and wide as the river Pactolus; for he is a spendthrift by instinct," said Fareham.   [Please select]

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Hyacinth might be careless and ignorant of business, but his lordship doubtless knew the extent of his income, and was too grave and experienced a personage to be a spendthrift.   [Please select]

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This turned his head, and a spendthrift's blood runs in his veins.   [Please select]

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Near Aldborough house Father Conmee thought of that spendthrift nobleman.   [Please select]

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Auramazda is an awful spendthrift; he might have made three beauties out of Sappho.   [Please select]

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Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a spendthrift.   [Please select]

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"You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study.   [Please select]

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His father was a dissipated spendthrift of unspeakable morals; his mother was a Scotch heiress, passionate and unbalanced.   [Please select]

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"It would be a bad thing for spendthrift young noblemen, Millicent."   [Please select]

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_ Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue.   [Please select]

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