squanderer
Example Sentences
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Benjamin Franklin, no squanderer of time, would be impressed by the schedules kept by today's children.
From Time Magazine Archive
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No squanderer of money on common folk was he.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that—sacrificing?
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Then he will not be a squanderer of his strength, in spheres where no one is grateful to him.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Oh, youth's a thriftless squanderer, It's easy come and spent, And heavy is the going now Where once the light foot went.
From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by William Stanley Braithwaite