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How to use spendthrift in a sentence

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This is a president who's the biggest spendthrift that I've seen since I've been paying attention in politics.
The spendthrift ways of provincial governments have made international lending agencies reticent to loan desperately needed cash.
In this way, spendthrift borrowers are prevented from abusing the service and falling into the trap of revolving credit.
If you are a spendthrift before retiring you will be a spendthrift during retirement.
Yesterday, I asked my man-servant to bring forth the telephone-device, so that I could give my idiot spendthrift son a stern dressing-down.
But the fact that your son is a squanderer and spendthrift does not prevent his inheritance from you.
Its consumers have been key engines of global growth, continuing their spendthrift ways even when the rest of the world turned miserly.
He is a passionate defender of the noble art of genre film-making, something he feels was ruined by spendthrift Hollywood studios.
You cannot expect people to feather-bed these public sector employees while being robbed blind by spendthrift councils and Government taxes.
Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation.
John Williamson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said that this is a spendthrift government.
What are the realities of consumption on BRIC markets, should we be drawn by the siren song of these spendthrift consumers?
Correction Dear Henry ReprintsHe was also a corsair, a slaver, a military adventurer and a spendthrift, mostly with other people's money.
The Greek crisis led to an ugly spate of thinly veiled racism against lazy and spendthrift Mediterranean types in the media.
Indeed, much of the increase stems from the spendthrift consumption patterns of the most industrialized countries.
Hostile contemporary commentators naturally made great play with alleged waste at court, castigating a spendthrift queen Marie-Antoinette in particular.
The rash man may be described as courageous and the spendthrift as liberal.
Why, it is the first idea that occurs to every spendthrift who is hard pressed.
A banker could decide that a loan applicant's spendthrift habits make him a risky bet.
Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was a precedent that established miserliness as an actual sin, a dissipation just as deadly as that of the spendthrift.
But as if the bad blood of the entire family had come to a head in one man, Richard was born a roisterer and a spendthrift.
Even then, his style should not be the spendthrift waste they say he is fond of.
The three distinguished characters were a spendthrift, a bailiff, and a dun.
In Balzac are found the two contradictory traits of the money-grubber and the spendthrift.
In England a spendthrift or dipsomaniac can only be controlled when he has spent all his money.
He had acquired this from his mother's teachings and his father's spendthrift ways.
Nature, said Lester Ward, is a spendthrift, man an economizer.
He was a spendthrift, he was an adulterer, he gambled, he equivocated.
In his youth he was a spendthrift and paid no heed to his property.
As you say, he seemed to be a ruler, but was only a spendthrift.
A man, he judged, of spendthrift generosity, a prodigal of himself.
A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left.
A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!
A few years since Henry granted it to that spendthrift favorite of his, Henri de Macy, who pledged it to me for a sum he hath been unable to repay.
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