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Meaning of wastethrift | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A spendthrift.

obsolete

Examples

“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?”

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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