fritterer

noun

Definition of fritterernext
as in spendthrift
someone who spends money freely or foolishly a wastrel who had the dubious distinction of being the drunken fritterer of one of the largest fortunes ever amassed in America

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fritterer
  1. spendthrift
  2. high roller
  3. prodigal
  4. wastrel
  5. waster
Noun
  • That’s half a trillion sucked out of the market and into the bottomless pit of the incontinent spendthrifts in the U.S. government.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Even for a country as awash with cash as Venezuela has been since 2004, Chávez's spendthrift ways have left behind a worrisome level of debt, fiscal deficit, and dependence on imports.
    Javier Corrales, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2013
Definition of spendthrift
Noun
  • Like a veteran high roller playing the odds, indie film execs crowding the new Vegas venue at the Palms Casino for this year’s American Film Market are hedging their bets.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Up in the high roller suite, both Joan and Pascal choose from a variety of glamorous outfits for their night on the town.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of high roller
Noun
  • He is angered by his father’s instant acceptance of the prodigal’s return.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
  • As a youth, Mr. Graham, now 65, was the prodigal of the Graham family, a college dropout fond of alcohol.
    Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 27 May 2018
Definition of prodigal
Noun
  • Henry Muck, suitably nicknamed Prince Hal by his family and friends, may be Industry’s version of the ultimate privileged wastrel.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Atay lingers on the outskirts, keeping the company of workers and wastrels, poets and drunks—all those who refuse the monumental transformations of Turkish society.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of wastrel
Noun
  • Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
  • California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of waster
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