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squanderer|ˈskwɒndərə(r)|
[f. as prec.]
One who squanders or spends extravagantly.
1611Cotgr., Sacre,..a spendall, vnthrift, squanderer. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xix. (1674) 20 By giving past number or measure, they deserve rather to be esteemed foolish squanderers, than vertuously Liberal. 1741Richardson Pamela IV. 369 This would..instruct him..to avoid being a Squanderer or Waster. 1791Cowper Odyss. xiv. 117 Witness how fast the squanderers use his wine. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 406 Squanderers and gamblers have no sense of justice.
transf.c1830Landor Prose Pieces Wks. 1846 II. 465 Far differently ought we to estimate the squanderers of human blood, and the scorners of human tears. |