Spendthrift \Spend"thrift`\, n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. --Mrs. R. H. Davis.
Spendthrift \Spend"thrift\, a. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
According to the legend, Midas, son of King Gordius, was a spendthrift who begged the gods for the power to turn anything he touched to gold.
This is a bigger spending boom in two years than the spendthrift Carter Administration was able to achieve in four.
Others have misgivings about the write-down approach that Congress mandated, saying many of their farm constituents who struggled to meet their obligations regard write-downs as an unfair reward for mismanagement and spendthrift ways.
Mr Ikeda's followers had accused the Nichiren monks of 'playing golf and living madly spendthrift lives'. Mr Akiya is undismayed and likens the split to Christian protestants' breakaway from the Catholic church.
"We will not have the luxury of taking the easy, spendthrift approach to solving problems," he said in a televised speech.
It is what he plans to go on doing if he gets that super-ministry. Then it is Mr Lafontaine's turn to denounce the spendthrift ways of the current coalition and demonstrate that his own tax plans are both fairer and more responsible.
Such hardheadedness is regarded as a virtue in a wife, even by spendthrift Cairenes.
The idea of a 'spendthrift' left, feeding a large public sector, was over.
Until the spendthrift Spaniards catch up with the realities of the economic slowdown, this particular niche of the property market will continue to be buoyant.
Mrs. Lincoln continued her spendthrift ways, buying jewelry and clothing galore, including 400 pairs of gloves in a three-month period.
In 1952, Lucy and Ethel take a job in a candy factory when Ricky tells Lucy she needs to mend her spendthrift ways.
The critics who deplore the rapaciousness with which the Americans consume the goods and services of a spendthrift economy fail to notice that the material acquisitions matter much less than the states of being that they supposedly announce and contain.
But if ever a woman was encouraged to become a spendthrift, it was Diana.
But media reports have said industry is not adequately using the information and technology, and they have criticized the spendthrift attitude of government agencies involved in space.
The shopping epidemic can't be explained away just by spendthrift yuppies or the "me generation."