squanderer

noun

Definition of squanderernext
as in spendthrift
someone who spends money freely or foolishly the elderly woman refused to leave any money to the family's most notorious squanderer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squanderer
  1. spendthrift
  2. wastrel
  3. prodigal
  4. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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