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 German philosopher Karl Marx George IV of Great Britain, King Ludwig II of Bavaria,[citation needed] and Marie Antoinette.
The term is often used by the press as an adjective applied to governments who are thought to be wasting public money.
I have been on a prolonged spending binge and can't seem to stop. Isolated because of the pandemic,stress, anxiety, and boredom.
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