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

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

What a squanderer of unconsidered hours you are, Diana!

From The Splendid Folly by Pedler, Margaret

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