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

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

From Alice Adams by Tarkington, Booth

I warrant she’s clean out of medicine an money, for she’s a regular squanderer when it comes to makin’ rag rugs.

From Jessica, the Heiress by Raymond, Evelyn

Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

He is what is called a squanderer of money.

From Essays on Political Economy by Bastiat, Frédéric