All 4 Uses of
squander
in
Angela's Ashes
- If you didn't squander the money in the pubs I wouldn't have to follow you the way I did in Brooklyn.
Chpt 2 *squander = waste
- Mr. Downes says that Malachy McCourt is gone pure mad with the drink, that he squanders his wages in pubs all over Coventry, that he sings Irish rebel songs which the English don't mind because they're used to the way the Irish carry on about the hundreds of years of suffering, but they won't put up with any man that stands up in a pub and insults the King and Queen of England, their two lovely daughters and the Queen Mother herself.†
Chpt 9
- He's half asleep but he says he's going there some day to sing and dance and would I help him go and when he's asleep I start thinking about America and how I have to save money for my fare instead of squandering it on fish and chips and tea and buns.†
Chpt 15
- On my way to the post office I think, Why should I squander money on stamps when I have two legs to deliver the letters myself in the dead of night?†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(squander) to waste -- money, resources, or opportunities