spendthrift

What kind of spendthrift picks a completely needless fight with one of the last banks in town willing to lend him money?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni said Thursday that the results offer the “latest evidence that consumers have continued their spendthrift ways.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent, which can be important if your heir is a minor child, a spendthrift or someone reliant on public benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024

These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

I will uphold his wishes, but if I outlive him and there’s no agreement in place, I would likely give little to nothing to his children because they are irresponsible spendthrifts.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Sacrifice sheer consumer quantity in favor of quality spendthrifts?

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

Clearing her throat, she started to read aloud: “Workers earn it, spendthrifts burn it, bankers lend it.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

I heard my generation was full of squanderers and spendthrifts, but this really does take the avocado.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2018

He was wondering what would have happened to the dear old stately place if he had died a month ago, and it had fallen into the hands of those two spendthrifts, Archie and his father.

From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley