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Meanings of spendthrift in English

Portuguese
gastão
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Someone who spends money prodigally.

        gastão

        Recklessly wasteful.

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              Usage of spendthrift in English
              1
              Many Britons regard the EU as an incompetent, spendthrift source of bureaucracy.
              Reuters
              2
              And yes indeed, he really was a spendthrift with his duct tape.
              Dearly Devoted Dexter
              3
              The miser has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
              Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
              4
              This spendthrift folly will have to be paid for in the future.
              Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
              5
              No more will the Irish offer Aran jumpers to spendthrift American tourists.
              The Irish Times
              6
              Only one little fault in my good son: too spendthrift, too lavish.
              Cobwebs and Cables
              7
              Like spendthrift sons, they run to their guardian in time of trouble.
              The Web of Life
              8
              But the prince was known all over Europe as a handsome spendthrift.
              The Lure of the Mask
              9
              And bestowed upon him the epithets of spendthrift, jail-bird, and unnatural ruffian.
              The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
              10
              Val is an unlucky dog of a spendthrift; that's what Val is.
              Elster's Folly: A Novel
              11
              He has stolen from savers to prop up the spendthrift, they claim.
              The Irish Times
              12
              This turned his head, and a spendthrift's blood runs in his veins.
              Cleopatra — Volume 01
              13
              Those that used to play are playing still, so spendthrift is life.
              The Crescent Moon
              14
              Salt is a luxury; ''he eats salt'' being said of a spendthrift.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
              15
              Why should he play the spendthrift and the wanton with his love?
              Queed: A Novel
              16
              He was not avaricious to accumulate property, neither was he a spendthrift.
              The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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              Translations for spendthrift
              Portuguese
              gastão
              Spendthrift through the time
              Spendthrift across language varieties
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