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wastethrifts

wastethrifts is the plural of wastethrift.

Meaning of wastethrift

Noun

wastethrift (plural wastethrifts)

  1. (obsolete) A spendthrift.
    • 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?1608, Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, act 2, scene 1; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 2, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 20
    Synonyms:
    wastegood

Questions about wastethrifts

What is wastethrifts the plural of?
Wastethrifts is the plural of wastethrift.

Words near wastethrifts in the dictionary

  1. wastest
  2. wastestream
  3. wastestreams
  4. wasteth
  5. wastethrift
  6. wastethrifts
  7. wastetime
  8. wastetimes
  9. wastewater
  10. wastewaters
  11. wasteway

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