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Meanings of squanderer in English

Catalan
pròdig
Spanish
derrochador

A recklessly extravagant consumer.

pròdig
Synonyms
Examples for "prodigal"
Examples for "prodigal"
1
The summer was splendid in its promise and prodigal in its favors.
The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky
2
She was expansive in her person, prodigal in sympathy, exuberant in dress.
The Divine Fire
3
And the parable of the prodigal son teaches us the same lesson.
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
4
He is as prodigal in this respect as Caruso in his moments.
Nights in London
5
The covetous prodigal is of all others the worst man in society.
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
1
Ninety minutes for the paymaster to give the profligate state a drubbing.
Reuters
2
They kept their promise, and discovered him in the most profligate society.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1
3
Yet, though profligate in one respect, he was temperate in every other.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
4
If we choose the branch that continues our profligate habits, we will.
The Irish Times
5
A lady has two sisters of the most profligate and unprincipled character.
Lives of the Necromancers
Usage of squanderer in English
1
I'm a squanderer of renunciations, someone else in the way I'm I.
The book of disquiet
2
There never was such a squanderer of his own immeasurable riches.
In the Days of Poor Richard
3
No indulgence in petty follies or degrading vices aggravated the offence of the magnificent squanderer.
The Parisians — Volume 02
4
He is what is called a squanderer of money.
Essays on Political Economy
5
What a squanderer of unconsidered hours you are, Diana!
The Splendid Folly
6
Compared with him, even Haller was a time-squanderer.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
7
I squander what is given me, a squanderer with a thousand hands: how could I call that-sacrificing
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
8
Thou art a squanderer!
The Pretty Lady
9
He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
10
That means that a consumer society is a society of destroyers and squanderers.
The story of stuff
11
My intention is to make a sheaf of the relics spread by squanderers, and snapped up by scoundrels.
Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
Translations for squanderer
Squanderer through the time