Wastethrift

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spendthrift. obsolete

    "My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew: why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a common surfeiter, and, to conclude, a beggar, must sin in him call up shame in me?"

Synonyms

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prodigalprodigalprodigal sonprofligateprofligatespend

Antonyms

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miser

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"My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew: why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a common surfeiter, and, to conclude, a beggar, must sin in him call up shame in me?"

Etymology

From waste + thrift.

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