He may have thought that his marriage, imprudent as it was, would be taken as some guarantee of future steadiness, or at least of abstinence from the spendthrift courses which had hitherto destroyed all confidence in him.
Another exhibited his as such a reckless spendthrift that the family estate would never cover the debts.
He was generous to his friends in a spendthrift fashion, and he was cultured enough to expend large sums of his wealth upon the fine arts.
And as for Amory, he was almost worse; he was a spendthrift when my father was close: he drank dreadfully, and was furious when in that way.
They caused Manetto to be arrested for a debt of Matteo, sent Matteo's brothers and then the clergyman of the parish to reason with him on his spendthrift habits, and fooled him so that he fairly lost his sense of identity.
They are still thespendthrift parasite, and the brutally capricious bully.
Nay, I am not sure that you would have been as incredulous now, if told that the wild outlaw before you had some claim by birth or by nurture to the rank of gentleman, as you would had you seen the gay spendthrift in his gaudy day.
But for Charles Haughton, the spendthrift and gamester, would William Losely have been the convicted felon?
But Lionel, entre nous, is the son of a ruined spendthrift by a linen-draper's daughter.
His life in flowering has exhausted and undone itself, so spendthrift has been the process.
I could not but wonder at his vexation; being satisfied in my own mind, that sooner or later the remaining heritage of the spendthrift must fall to his share.
The boy, spendthrift though he might be, a fool with his money though he might be, was game to the core in standing by a man whom he believed to be his friend.
Was young Merxler, whom he had heard of and had even met through David Ellsworth, more then than simply the notorious spendthrift that he was credited with being?
The outlying farms were scattered in five villages--"there are always spendthrift lazy fellows willing to sell their land.
The miser is as much the slave of his money as is the spendthrift the slave of his indulgences.
The spendthriftsacrifices the future to present enjoyment.
We have squandered our substance, wasted our heritage, played the spendthrift royally as we might.
Taking it all around," says an unprejudiced writer, "the present generation in the United States reminds one of a youngspendthrift just come into a fine property, accumulated by the thrift and carefulness of many ancestors.
No spendthrift could waste his substance in riotous luxury.
This rich prize the spendthrift lost in a single night; whence it came to be a proverb in Spain, Juega el Sol antes que amanezca, "Play away the Sun before sunrise.
The brokenspendthrift saw in it the quarter where he was to repair his fortunes as speedily as he had ruined them.
A merchant just returned from sea, a spendthrift heir, and a leader of the demi-monde are good customers because of their prodigality.
His father, the elder Walter, had been the one black sheep of the Willoughby flock, the one spendthrift of that prudent family circle.
He allowed himself no reserves; he told the whole story of his father's spendthrift propensities, and his own small means in consequence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spendthrift" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
