0 someone who spends a lot of money in a way that wastes it: --
2 a person who wastes money, or spends more than is necessary: --
3 someone who spends too much money without thinking about the results: --
4 in the habit of spending too much money without thinking about the results: --
Is not this the act of a spendthrift?
I know there are people who call us spendthrifts in educational matters, but they only look on one side of the picture.
The spendthrift always says there are only a few thousand pounds here and a few there.
But if we do not do that we shall run the inevitable course which attaches to the spendthrift in private life.
We have said perfectly clearly that we will cap spendthrift councils.
He has been called a gambler and a spendthrift.
One bad year does not drive a farmer off the land any more than one good year makes him a reckless spendthrift.
This would penalise the thrifty man, who had saved during his life as a public servant, as against the spendthrift.