Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A spendthrift; a wastrel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A spendthrift.
Wiktionary
- n. One who wastes; a spendthrift.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who wastes; a spendthrift.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who spends money prodigally
Etymologies
- scatter + good (Wiktionary)
Examples
“May 13, 2010, 12: 57 pm zuch says: scattergood: YOU are not associating with Haliburton and Blackwater, YOUR GOVERNEMNT and is spending YOUR tax dollars for products and services fromthem.”
“Blue Neponset says: scattergood: You are forced to pay taxes.”
“Guy says: scattergood: You cannot not buy cars from these three approved car companies!”
“Guy says: scattergood: So, the right to privacy extends to the decision of whether to terminate a pregnacy or not terminate a pregnacy.”
“But as I stated, that hardly disproves my point that RW regimes are authoritarian/totalitarian, and as I stated, this even removes the excuse that such authoritarianism is necessary/excusable because it brings economic benefits. scattergood: Your other examples, Guatamala, Hondurus, etc. are not examples of totalitarian capitalists.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“April 7, 2010, 3: 11 am zuch says: scattergood: Socialistic economic systems tends towards violence and totalitarianism because they are exceedingly ineffecient economic systems.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“April 7, 2010, 11: 38 am zuch says: scattergood: Your constant reference to Chile is a red herring.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
“This is a policy argument, not a constitutional argument. scattergood: Further, the $700 penalty combined with no pre-existing restrictions on health insurance will significantly drive up the number of uninsured and the costs to those insured.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
“April 5, 2010, 11: 36 am zuch says: scattergood: The mandate is nothing but a huge transfer of wealth from the young and health to the old and sickly.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
“And now, my lords, there is that young scattergood the Laird of”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scattergood’.
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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waste of time and money
fritter, twiddle, squander, fidget, bric-a-brac, claptrap, clutter, lollygag, spendthrift, dawdle, boondoggle, thriftless and 22 more...
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Irresponsibilities
Ways to esquivaliate.
gongoozler, mollycoddle, eyeservice, luftmensch, peregrination, malinger, groak, lèche-vitrines, faineant, slugabed, layabout, ne'er-do-well and 18 more...
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words to revive
thropple, sparve, sweven, dwine, slade, thirl, dindle, swipple, scattergood
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