Example sentences for: spendthrift

How can you use “spendthrift” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He was, however, frequently distracted by attacks on his wife, who was seen as an extravagant spendthrift and a sinister influence on the king.

  • Chernow attributes Rockefeller's poor relations with Harper to the fact that the college president was a spendthrift.

  • E. Exasperated Jeb Bush is pretty sure his spendthrift wife, Columba, wishes either that she hadn't bought "$19,000 worth of clothes and jewelry on her Paris shopping spree," or wishes that she hadn't tried to smuggle them through customs, or wishes that she hadn't got caught.

  • If you're a pessimist and don't trust your future self to be frugal, then you might as well spend all your money today so it doesn't fall into the hands of that future spendthrift.

  • Parker, Jonathan A. "Spendthrift in America?


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