OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 37118

spendthrift

/ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
manirroto • pródigo
Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.
He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which…
Powerful feelings and generous designs are, alas! too like the inheritance of a miser in the hands of some spendthrift heir—lavished away on trifles in our early years, and needed,…
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