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How to pronounce spendthrift in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms scattergood, spend-all, spender
Type of prodigal, profligate, squanderer
Has types big spender, high roller
Type Words
Synonyms extravagant, prodigal, profligate

Examples of spendthrift

spendthrift
It's cheaper to live together than apart, unless you have a spendthrift partner.
From the independent.co.uk
Amongst the bad countries would be spendthrift Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
From the economist.com
Fellini sued and a Roman judge found that the director had not been spendthrift.
From the time.com
Perhaps the Prime Minister offended the more spendthrift members of his audience.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Enough, in fact, to bail out a couple of the most spendthrift eurozone countries.
From the independent.co.uk
Spendthrift Farms Owner Brownell Combs II explained the attraction of the area.
From the time.com
They include Mediterranean countries long considered irredeemably spendthrift.
From the newsweek.com
Americans are beginning to accept that their country must become less spendthrift.
From the economist.com
Do i think that without Jez and a spendthrift CEO in place we might be in trouble.
From the expressandstar.com
More examples
  • Someone who spends money prodigally
  • Extravagant: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
  • Spendthrift (foaled 1876 in Kentucky-21 October 1900) was a successful American Thoroughbred racehorse and an outstanding sire.
  • Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully; Wasteful, improvident or profligate; Lavish or extravagant
  • (spendthriftness) The condition of being a spendthrift; profligacy
  • An individual who cannot handle money wisely and spends it wastefully.
  • Device that helps to eliminate the heat generation for a body, in general the microprocessor of the team, sometimes with the collaboration of a fan. For it, he thinks about how to have good conduction of the heat (they are usually of copper) and big surface.
  • A person who squanders money.
  • (n) - a wasteful person