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

A hundred people would lend me money, or to any man who has not the reputation of a squanderer.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

She was no squanderer of her father’s money—she knew the value of every thing; no waste, no scantiness was her mode.

From The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. by Unknown

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

In contact with his own family Walter was no squanderer of words.

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth