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spendthrift

/spend-thrift/US // ˈspɛndˌθrɪft //UK // (ˈspɛndˌθrɪft) //

大花筒,败家子,浪费者,花钱如流水

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wastefully extravagant; prodigal.

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Examples

  • The hardest parts of the pandemic will pass, but the question is whether consumers will return to their spendthrift ways — revolving high-interest credit card debt.

  • For those spendthrifts whose incomes weren’t affected by the coronavirus crisis, the pandemic pause created an opportunity for them to change their ways.

  • Trying to keep up with spendthrift friends or neighbors is a never-ending game with no true winners.

  • “We are, both you and I, equally thoughtless, spendthrift and extravagant … We are damned poor,” he wrote her in 1898.

  • Despite all this, Andrew still allows the spendthrift Fergie, NFI at the Royal Wedding, to live with him when she is England.

  • If this is a pinchpenny conservative, what is a spendthrift liberal?

  • She is so careful with her cash that she makes the Sage of Omaha look a positive spendthrift.

  • A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."

  • Algernon Deuceace, you don't want a father to tell you that you are a swindler and a spendthrift!

  • He occasionally doles out a little praise, but usually shows himself a spendthrift in censure and abuse.

  • It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

  • Spendthrift man and spendthrift Nation must face at last the same law carrying the same penalty.