Spendthrifts

Word SPENDTHRIFTS
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What do we mean by spendthrifts?

Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

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The word "spendthrifts" in example sentences

Greece and the Continent's common currency, opposition grew among Germans to bailing out what they call spendthrifts to the south after years of belt-tightening by workers at home. ❋ By NICHOLAS KULISH (2010)

His father and grandfather had been known as spendthrifts; and now men said that this earl was a miser. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

The Sunday Times identified the IBA "spendthrifts" as de Klerk, who apparently has no supporting documentation to explain R41713 spent on his IBA credit card; his co-chair Dr Sebiletso ❋ Unknown (1997)

Favors should not be conferred on those, who we believe, will make a bad use of them; such as spendthrifts, or persons of dissipated habits. ❋ Unknown (1850)

A recent letter to the Bonanza took the "spendthrifts" on the IVGID Board of Trustees to task for considering a 3 percent raise in salary for district staff, characterizing the salary and benefits of the staff as "generous." ❋ By Ed Gurowitz Special To The Bonanza (2010)

And most universities aren't teaching financial planners to address the causes of people's spending behaviors, such as spendthrifts wed to overspenders who learned their habits by how their parents dealt with money.

"spendthrifts," who generally spend more than they would ideally like to spend, tend to marry each other, consistent with the notion that people are attracted to mates who possess characteristics dissimilar to those they deplore in themselves … In spite of this complementary attraction, spendthrift/tightwad differences within a marriage predict conflict over finances, which in turn predict diminished marital well-being. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They can further tar Obama and the Democrats as reckless spendthrifts that want to run the country and the economy into the ground. ❋ Earl Ofari Hutchinson (2011)

It was a good tale then, no less now, and to their credit BBC spendthrifts recognise its value. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet these deficit spendthrifts suddenly become misers when it comes to Social Security, where they're only saving $1.7 billion by slashing its administrative budget. ❋ RJ (2011)

People who think of themselves as either tightwads or spendthrifts supposedly are less happy than people in between. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Question: Are the thrifty longer lived and spendthrifts shorter lived? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The administration will have no option except raise taxes for being such spendthrifts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now, even though I'm still waiting to buy MY house, I'm being told that I have to first pay for the houses of irresponsible and/or incompetent spendthrifts who feel as though the world is owed to them on a silver platter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But of course today, the euro zone's supposedly "frugal" states don't trust the spendthrifts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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