Sample Sentences for
spendthrift
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    I needed gloves, certainly, and if I was going to play the part of the spendthrift wealthy tourist I would need to buy more than that.†  (source)
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    At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.†  (source)
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    I'm a bit of a spendthrift, if you will.†  (source)
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    These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.†  (source)
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    Grandfather would complain and talk of idleness and spendthrifts, but in the end he always agreed.†  (source)
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    He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.†  (source)
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    Let it suffice, that among spendthrifts I out-Heroded Herod, and that, giving name to a multitude of novel follies, I added no brief appendix to the long catalogue of vices then usual in the most dissolute university of Europe.†  (source)
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    The change in him was like the change in a spendthrift when his attention is captured by something worth more than all his gold, worth more than all the baubles he has ever purchased; then, instead of scattering, he begins to assess and hoard and gather up; all that he has becomes valuable because all that he has may prove to be an unacceptable sacrifice.†  (source)
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    O gamblers and spendthrifts all!†  (source)
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    What a spendthrift she'd become!†  (source)
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    Now you mustn't think that Thomas and I are spendthrifts.†  (source)
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    Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York.†  (source)
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    I'm one of the worst spendthrifts that ever was born.†  (source)
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