Crossword clues for spendthrift
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spendthrift \Spend"thrift`\, n. One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life.
--Mrs.
R. H. Davis.
Spendthrift \Spend"thrift\, a. Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 wasteful, improvident or profligate. 2 lavish or extravagant. n. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
WordNet
adj. recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate]
n. someone who spends money prodigally [syn: spend-all, spender, scattergood]
Wikipedia
A spendthrift (also called profligate) is someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond his or her means. The word derives from an obsolete sense of the word "thrift" to mean prosperity rather than frugality, so that a "spendthrift" is one who has spent their prosperity.
Historical figures who have been characterized as spendthrifts include Karl Marx, George IV of Great Britain, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Marie Antoinette the Queen of France.
The term is often used by the press as an adjective applied to governments who are thought to be wasting public money.
Spendthrift (foaled 1876 in Kentucky – 21 October 1900) was a successful American Thoroughbred racehorse and an outstanding sire.
Spendthrift is a 1936 American Paramount Pictures romance film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson and Mary Brian.
A Spendthrift is someone who spends money prodigiously.
Spendthrift or The Spendthrift may also refer to:
- Spendthrift (horse) (1876–1900), American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
- Spendthrift (film), 1936 American film
- The Spendthrift (1915 film), American silent film drama directed by Walter Edwin
- The Spendthrift (1917 film), Austrian silent historical film directed by Jacob Fleck
- The Spendthrift (1953 film), Austrian historical film directed by Leopold Hainisch
- The Spendthrift (1964 film), Austrian historical film directed by Kurt Meisel
Usage examples of "spendthrift".
His earlier days were passed in complete obscurity, none but the neediest spendthrift or the most desperate gambler knowing where he dwelt, and every one who found him out in his wretched abode near the Marshalsea had reason to regret his visit.
Bucus Elder had been encouraging Menzie to be a spendthrift for years, no wonder the Family lacked gilt.
As for the ungrateful man who habitually misapplies benefits and acts so by choice, he will no more bestow a benefit upon him than he would lend money to a spendthrift, or place a deposit in the hands of one who had already often refused to many persons to give up the property with which they had entrusted him.
The spendthrift gives and squanders by a kind of instinct, and so he will continue to do as long as his means remain.
His earlier days were passed in complete obscurity, none but the neediest spendthrift or the most desperate gambler knowing where he dwelt, and every one who found him out in his wretched abode near the Marshalsea had reason to regret his visit.
I know the Baron of Vo Toral for a notorious spendthrift, but had not thought him dishonorable.
The zombi was George Grulen, the reputed spendthrift who had so rapidly squandered away a fortune.
I went home and made an elaborate toilette, and on arriving at the ball I found Agatha dancing with Lord Percy, a young fool, who was the son of the Duke of Northumberland, and an extravagant spendthrift.
When I knew him he was a shiftless young spendthrift, boisterous, goodhearted, full of careless generosities, and pretty conspicuously promising to fool his possibilities away early, and come to nothing.
After begging pardon for having intruded upon your family at these hours, I must now tell you that my cousin, Count Melvil, was some time ago so much misrepresented to his mother by certain malicious informers, who delight in sowing discord in private families, that she actually believed her son an extravagant spendthrift, who had not only consumed his remittances in the most riotous scenes of disorder, but also indulged a pernicious appetite for gaming, to such a degree, that he had lost all his clothes and jewels at play.
My hatred of disorder went so far as to decree flogging in the Circus for spendthrifts sunk in debt.
With enough money, endowed by nature with a pleasing and commanding physical appearance, a confirmed gambler, a true spendthrift, a great talker, very far from modest, intrepid, always running after pretty women, supplanting my rivals, and acknowledging no good company but that which ministered to my enjoyment, I was certain to be disliked.
The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past.
Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.