Why did you not come sooner to us, sir, and not lose your time amongst the spendthrifts and the vain world?
Improvident, if they marry such spendthrifts as you," says the General.
Thus, if you change a nation of spendthrifts into a nation of economical men, you bring about a great and glorious result.
Without the most exquisite intelligence, says experience, without the most refined capacity for choice and a strong propensity to observe the mean, the morally rich will become spendthrifts of morality.
The children of these highly moral spendthrifts easily and (sad to relate) at best become pleasant but futile wasters.
After having been such Spendthrifts so long, it looks like Impudence for us to talk of saving; but as Sickness is sometimes the Cause of Health, so Misfortunes and Misconduct may force us to be happy.
On the other hand, there is less wealth destroyed by spendthrifts than is generally supposed, for spendthrifts are most frequently cheated by men who make savings themselves.
But the capital of spendthrifts is wont to be suddenly exhausted; demand suddenly decreases, and producers suffer a crisis.
Kings and their ministers the greatest spendthrifts in a country, 149.
They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthriftsin the society.
Juvenal says this is what the spendthrifts come to: and also that they would do it for money, without any Nero to compel them.
The sum thus gained set the spendthrifts up; and De Grammont satisfied his conscience by giving it away, to a certain extent, in charity.
They are spendthrifts in sympathy, which in them has degenerated into an exquisite tendency to pain.
Let friends of prodigals say what they will, Spendthrifts at home, abroad are spendthrifts still.
It turned the culprits into spendthrifts and pleasure-seekers; their arrogance and deficiency of culture, and their ostentation, became especially offensive to their own fellow-citizens.
The pheasants and partridges were caponed and fed, a brace cost as much as a ducat; it was thought horrible that these spendthrifts gave a gulden for a fresh herring, and from eight to ten thalers for a hundred oysters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spendthrifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
