spendthrift

• Clinton, the accomplished courtier, the dashing equestrian, the graceful spendthrift--the apparently resistless Clinton had no attraction for him. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
• Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue Alon. —  The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
• If you wish to know, I’ll tell you; being a trifler, an idler, a cheat, a glutton, a debauchee, a spendthrift-- Believe me, and believe that you are our {son CLIT. —  The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes
• Brother--spendthrift, shiftless, improvident--marries a West Indian papist; turns one; dies with his wife, or, at least, soon after her leaving another ne'er-do-weel on my hands. —  May Brooke
• I was out with a kind friend the other evening whose general disposition is to try and make Frank Daniels look like a spendthrift, so I knew it would be beer for mine unless I made a great mental effort, so all the way up the street in the taxicab I just held thumbs and concentrated my mind--I saw more new style hats, too--and said to myself, 'For Heaven's sake, order wine,' 'Please loosen up and order wine.' —  The Sorrows of a Show Girl

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