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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Unfortunately, this enthusiasm found a vent too often in silly and thoughtless squandering of money on the soldiers.
THE RELIEF OF MAFEKINGFILSON YOUNGReflect how plainly incompatible a habit of squandering it is, with the frame of mind which is the fruit of Christianity.
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTLands their forebears had won by lance and sword, they were squandering away as fast as ever they could.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLAfter squandering all his fortune, he marries a young girl, whom he wants to have act as his nurse.
CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN NOVELISTSSERGE PERSKYHe had always been possessed of a leisure which he had nursed and protected, instead of squandering it in vain activities.
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTSEDITH WHARTONThey will never have another chance, his French and he,—unless we call this again a chance; which they are again squandering!
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XIII. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEBurke had no vices, save of style and temper; nor was any of his expenditure a profligate squandering of money.
OBITER DICTAAUGUSTINE BIRRELLSurely this squandering of Woman's gift, this failure of herself must cease now that peace has come!
WOMEN'S WILD OATSC. GASQUOINE HARTLEYBut we fear that you will take to drinking, and to squandering money.
LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMORECharlie Anderson, after squandering a fortune on a thankless wife, works for a labourer's hire.
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WORDS RELATED TO SQUANDERING
- absurdity
- amenity
- dissipation
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- folly
- frill
- icing on the cake
- immoderation
- improvidence
- lavishness
- luxury
- outrageousness
- overdoing
- overindulgence
- overspending
- preposterousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profusion
- recklessness
- squander
- squandering
- superfluity
- unreasonableness
- unrestraint
- unthrift
- wastefulness
- wildness
- accident
- bad luck
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- losing
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
- accidents
- bad lucks
- bereavements
- calamities
- casualties
- cataclysms
- catastrophes
- costs
- damages
- deaths
- debits
- debts
- defeats
- deficiencies
- depletions
- deprivations
- destitution
- destructions
- detriments
- disadvantages
- disappearances
- disasters
- dispossessions
- failures
- falls
- fatalities
- forfeitures
- harm
- hurt
- impairments
- injuries
- losings
- misadventures
- mishaps
- needs
- perdition
- privations
- retardations
- ruins
- sacrifices
- shrinkages
- squanderings
- trials
- troubles
- undoings
- want
- wastes
- wreckage
- accident
- bad luck
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- losing
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.