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squanderer

/skwon-der/US // ˈskwɒn dər //UK // (ˈskwɒndə) //

挥霍者,浪费者,挥霍无度,挥霍

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to spend or use extravagantly or wastefully.
    • : to scatter.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : extravagant or wasteful expenditure.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A hundred people would lend me money, or to any man who has not the reputation of a squanderer.

  • Consider, Fixlein knew that the Rittmeister was a cormorant towards the poor, as he was a squanderer towards the rich.

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

  • I had once been made the subject of a paragraph entitled: "A squanderer of his wife's fortune."

  • I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that—sacrificing?