What's the difference between bountiful and spendthrift?

Bountiful


Definition:

  • (a.) Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
  • (a.) Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (2) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
  • (3) The bounty on his head seems to confirm the NTC's preference for Gaddafi's summary execution.
  • (4) In a memo sent out to the NFL's 32 teams, Goodell ordered owners to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties now.
  • (5) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
  • (6) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
  • (7) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
  • (8) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
  • (9) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
  • (10) And while plans for a spin-off movie based around bounty hunter Boba Fett appear to be on hold, there are increasingly powerful rumours that the greatest Star Wars icon of all time, Darth Vader himself, will appear in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .
  • (11) Vitt was aware of the bounties and, according to the league, later admitted he had "fabricated the truth" when interviewed in 2010.
  • (12) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
  • (13) Picking up, it seems, from Private Eye's fortnightly teasing, by which Gordon Brown is depicted as the Supreme Leader of some decidedly half-cock Soviet-style state, here we see a heroic communist-style family, circa 1945, gazing into the bountiful lands of New Labour's next five year plan.
  • (14) Never needing to work again, he ploughed his bounty into various large-scale commercial properties then sailed around the world for 14 years with his wife, Julia.
  • (15) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
  • (16) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
  • (17) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
  • (18) In the space of five days, panic-stricken authorities have launched the biggest manhunt in modern times, placed a €4m bounty on his head – dead or alive – and thrown a security cordon around the capital not seen since the 2004 Olympics.
  • (19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
  • (20) The Linwood Street urban farm is now in its fourth planting season, producing a bounty of corn, squash and potatoes for local residents to harvest, again for free.

Spendthrift


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
  • (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Baelish's talent is for keeping his spendthrift master in cash.
  • (2) Berlin has ignored the pleas of the OECD, IMF and its allies in Paris and Rome, believing that such a solution would only worsen the spendthrift ways of their southern neighbours.
  • (3) I’ve never been much of a spendthrift, never really spent on holidays, cars or things like that.
  • (4) Johnson is the latest in a long line of politicians charged with the funding of academic research who thinks it needs to prove its worth in advance; that highly educated people working hard to fill the gaps in human knowledge never got us anywhere, and what those spendthrift boffins need to do is direct their research towards a readily monetisable goal.
  • (5) It would bring down to earth the spendthrift populism of Salmond's nationalists, probably lose them the next election and damage the cause of full independence.
  • (6) She is nobody's idea of a spendthrift, happily chucking money in the direction of the undeserving poor.
  • (7) Wilders argued Rutte was insulting a million voters by excluding him from the negotiations in advance and accused his rivals of being “liars and spendthrifts”.
  • (8) He believes this change in behaviour marks a long-term shift from the spendthrift habits of the boom to a savings culture.
  • (9) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
  • (10) It was a system that ensured waste by rewarding the most profligate spendthrifts in a system specifically engineered to waste the band’s money.
  • (11) When combined with the borrowing accumulated by our bloated banking sector and spendthrift consumers before the bubble burst, the UK's debt burden is world-beating.
  • (12) The problem is not that we lack self-reliance, or that we are spendthrifts.
  • (13) Then there's the culture that makes Germans the biggest savers and most reluctant spenders, encouraging national stereotypes about the thrifty and the spendthrift, the scroungers and the stingy.
  • (14) Thus I enjoy the spendthrift distinction of having purchased four Xbox 360 consoles in three years, having abandoned the first to the care of a friend in Brooklyn, left another floating around Europe with parties unknown, and stranded another with a pal in Tallinn (to the irritation of his girlfriend).
  • (15) This is one of those rare times when the lazy, spendthrift way of doing things really is best: you need to go to the garden centre at the earliest opportunity and buy plants that are big enough to harvest immediately.
  • (16) Acting on that without the clunking fist of across-the-board interest rate rises would be admirably surgical, since this way the residents of Kingston upon Hull are not punished for the spendthrift house buying of Kingston upon Thames.
  • (17) Dickens, having known real poverty in childhood and seen his father imprisoned for debt, was very careful with money all his life, drove fierce bargains with publishers, and featured many foolish spendthrifts in his books including Mr Micawber who also lands in a debtors’ prison.
  • (18) Judging by today's great quango cull , hacking back the unloved tentacles of a supposedly bloated, spendthrift state has proved neither as easy nor as lucrative as hoped.
  • (19) The determination to cut budget deficits in these circumstances does not show that policymakers of probity and integrity have replaced the irresponsible spendthrifts of 2008 and 2009.
  • (20) She told the Observer that she was wary of becoming a "monster" because of her success and of being a spendthrift.