He is what is called a squanderer of money. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Political Economy] Reference
What a squanderer of unconsidered hours you are, Diana!. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
From the arch-squanderer of public money, this was hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Budget 2010: If Osborne's gamble pays off, it is Thatcherism's finest hour] Reference
Also le gaspillage = waste un gaspilleur/une gaspilleuse = a squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [Words in a French Life] Reference
Also: le gaspillage = waste un gaspilleur/une gaspilleuse = a squanderer, spendthrift. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that — sacrificing?. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
She was no squanderer of her father's money -- she knew the value of every thing; no waste, no scantiness was her mode. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
The post, and the argument, is a credibility-squanderer - unless, of course, you are another of those people already so blind to opposing views on the issue that the mere whiff of blood will get you thrashing around. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Fair Use Day] Reference
The modern American is a notorious soap-squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference
Compared with him, even Haller was a time-squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
There never was such a squanderer of his own immeasurable riches. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of Poor Richard] Reference
In contact with his own family Walter was no squanderer of words. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Adams] Reference
Let no one suppose, from reading this, that I was become a careless squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1] Reference
The Summit County Government is not an ever-expanding squanderer of your tax dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
A hundred people would lend me money, or to any man who has not the reputation of a squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that-sacrificing?. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra] Reference
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that -- sacrificing?. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
No indulgence in petty follies or degrading vices aggravated the offence of the magnificent squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference
As it turns out, the biggest squanderer of all has been the federal government itself -- and any waste should not be tolerated. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Federer was pushed to the limit by Roddick, who squanderer four set points in the second set tie-break when the American was already up by a set. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Differences in autonomy between notebook operating on Vista and XP are minimal which came as surprise to us because Vista is commonly regarded as bigger squanderer. From Wordnik.com. [OCTools] Reference
True, the picture here is mainly that of confidence that the wife is no squanderer of her husband's goods, but the sweet thought goes far beyond the immediate application. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Henry is too young and too handsome to be doing nothing but lounging about the streets of London, and even if he should be ordered to the Indies, it is something to feel that he is no longer aimless and objectless in life -- a mere squanderer of time, without interest, stake, or duty, in this existence. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
Le gaspillage = waste un gaspilleur/une gaspilleuse = a squanderer, spendthrift. From Wordnik.com. [gaspiller - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Lawrence's very persuasive little book in its favour) to the three great objections to it (1) that it lets off the squanderer and penalises the saver; (2) that the difficulty, trouble and expense involved by the necessary valuation, and the iniquities and frauds that are almost certain to arise out of it, will be enormous; and. From Wordnik.com. [War-Time Financial Problems] Reference
Told you I was a master squanderer of time!. From Wordnik.com. [Wearing Two Hats – Writer or Blogger? « Lorelle on WordPress] Reference
She admits that the longer our discourse has continued, "the more I think I am a squanderer of my gifts and my heritage. From Wordnik.com. [Oz Conservative] Reference
O squanderer of content and ease. From Wordnik.com. [Complaint] Reference
O squanderer of content and ease. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference
"A squanderer you were," Simon rebuked the body. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
(205) wastethrift, n. unfrugal person; squanderer: Only a was-tethrift would plane the underside of a privy seat. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
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