The word "spendthrift" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe people who are known to irresponsible spending. For example: "He was a notorious spendthrift, always blowing his money on frivolity instead of investing in his future."
The Greek crisis led to an ugly spate of thinly veiled racism against lazy and spendthrift Mediterranean types in the media.
There was wide agreement among guests that Washington (while in many respects a spendthrift fount of tyranny) should bankroll Floridians' flood insurance.Spending on you: waste.
Much of the appeal is down to the country's spendthrift mining firms.
He has strong-armed California's Democratic legislators twice: first to accept deep cuts to cherished programmes such as child care, and then, once the deficit was plugged, to curb their spendthrift impulses.
The PMBD, a wily grouping of regional barons that is the PT's main partner, will probably try to take advantage of her inexperience to satisfy its appetite for pork and spendthrift ministries, even though it lost seats in the election.The man who could help her surmount these hurdles is Lula himself.
If anything, the disinflation programme was a victim of its own success: inflation and interest rates fell so sharply last year that the economy boomed.That encouraged Turks to start splurging on imports, and investors began to worry that inflows of foreign capital might not be big enough to finance the deficits caused by spendthrift consumers and the perennially penurious government.
He has kept a lid on spendthrift Democratic legislators.
Berlin was demanding that spendthrift countries in breach of the euro zone's fiscal limits (deficits at 3% of GDP and public debt at 60% of GDP) be threatened with losing their EU voting rights.
Their spendthrift ways are one source of the country's stubbornly high budget deficit and rising public debt.
Typically, lenders will demand ever higher rates of interest from spendthrift governments as public debts grow.
Time and again, worried analysts (including The Economist) have given warning of trouble as debt-laden and spendthrift consumers are forced to rein in their spending.So far, that trouble has been avoided.
