(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.
Squander
Definition:
(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
(v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
(v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
(v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.
(n.) The act of squandering; waste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obviously that inning, and game four in general, was frustrating for the Oakland A's, as they squandered several opportunities to knock out the Tigers.
(2) If Heathrow were shrunk or closed, he says, the investment that has gone into the airport would be squandered.
(3) His would undoubtedly be squandered on Paul Smith outfits and holidays in Mykonos.
(4) The UK's weather seems set on squandering one of its last chances to make amends for the largely dismal summer by threatening wind and rain for the event-packed bank holiday weekend.
(5) Previous titles in the series track the unfolding of the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster: Syrian Catastrophe, War on Development, Squandering Humanity, and Alienation and Violence.
(6) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(7) Part of me feels I squandered the chances she gave me.
(8) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(9) Most consistent home wins record although has been known to squander leads late in games.
(10) Weaver said the New York tour, which he called a “cousin” of the Iowa road trip, was executed “brilliantly” by Clinton’s then-campaign team, which launched a successful bid for senate before her confidants squandered an early advantage in chasing the White House seven years later.
(11) It's as mad and dysfunctional as the idea that education is wasted on mothers, because they will squander it on overseeing the education of their children.
(12) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(13) Sterling squandered a glorious chance to restore Liverpool's lead in a second half where they remained dangerous on the break, but Everton maintained overall control.
(14) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(15) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
(16) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.
(17) If asset managers and pension funds continue to ignore the threat, they face being accused of negligence - squandering billions of other people’s money on potentially disastrous investment decisions, because they were not taking the risk of climate change and what the cost of dealing with it could do to financial markets seriously enough.” Bruce Davis from Abundance Generation said: “We believe that renewable energy is an important new asset for investors to get returns which are importantly uncorrelated with the traditional financial system.
(18) Throughout this tournament, the striker with a bowl-cut straight out of Hull circa 1986 has lead the line superbly, made perceptive runs, found excellent scoring positions ... and squandered more opportunities than a boy who's been expelled from Eton, Harrow and every other fee-paying school in the land.
(19) Yet every day of waiting is a day wasted, with potential going untapped and opportunities squandered.
(20) He said England’s destiny had been in their control with opportunities squandered.