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Spendthrift

Spendthrift meaning

Improvident, profligate, or wasteful. | Extravagant or lavish.

Example sentences (12)

Soaring trade deficits for spendthrift nations at a time of contracting international trade will brings enormous pressures and something has to give.

But Palmero’s notebooks also paint her as a spendthrift who, as of December 2019, had gone through more than $16 million in eight years.

Obsession turns even the gentlest reader into a tyrant and a spendthrift: I’ve now purchased three copies of “Vectors” for people whose opinion of it I cannot live without.

No visible effort to fight Covid-19 was ever made by the spendthrift NECC.

An intriguing op-ed appeared in The Wall Street Journal this week, the subject of which — “Entitlements Will Eat America’s Economy” — is especially salient for our reckless, spendthrift lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

It is almost as spendthrift as the ALP because it will hand cash to private schools without any obvious productivity agenda.

Lawmakers should think about the burden on taxpayers as well as the beneficiaries of their customarily spendthrift ways.

The euro has been weakened by the dollar’s rally and by widening bond spreads between Italian and German debt, as markets grappled with the prospects of a spendthrift coalition government in Rome comprising the two parties.

Unlike in previous years, when the president's budget was declared dead on arrival as soon as it was released, President Trump's budget was dead before it arrived, killed by a spendthrift Congress.

Although in his youth he was undoubtedly a spendthrift and womaniser, Frederick settled down following his marriage to the seventeen-year-old Augusta of Saxe-Gotha in 1736.

Courts may generally recognize spendthrift clauses against trust beneficiaries and their creditors, but not against creditors of a settlor.

He was supported by most of the Iberian people, who were discontented with the heavy taxation imposed upon them by their spendthrift rulers.