Difference between Wasteful and Spendthrift

WASTEFUL vs SPENDTHRIFT: NOUN

Someone who spends money prodigally
One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
One who spends lavishly, improvidently, or foolishly; an unthrifty spender; a prodigal.
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively.
Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

Laying waste
Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
Marked by or inclined to waste; extravagant.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous.
Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal.
Tending to squander and waste
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
Uninhabited, desolate.
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

Destructive; devastating; wasting.
Producing or involving waste; occasioning serious loss or damage; ruinous.
Extravagant or lavish; profuse to excess; prodigal; squandering: as, a wasteful person.
Uninhabited; desolate; waste.
Synonyms and
Thriftless, unthrifty.
Lavish, Profuse, etc. See extravagant.

Wastefully spending or spent; lavish; improvident; wasteful; prodigal: as, a spendthrift heir; spendthrift ways.

Wastage, Ineffective, Useless, Pointless, Costly, Unnecessary, Pound foolish, Prodigal, Uneconomic, Uneconomical, Destructive, Spendthrift, Extravagant, Profligate, Inefficient

Plutocrat, Improvidence, Extravagance, Frugality, Penny pincher, Profligacy, Cheapskate, Wastrel, Tightwad, Spend all, Wasteful, Extravagant, Prodigal, Spender, Profligate

Wastage, Ineffective, Useless, Pointless, Costly, Unnecessary, Pound foolish, Prodigal, Uneconomic, Uneconomical, Destructive, Spendthrift, Extravagant, Profligate, Inefficient

Redistributionist, Freeloader, Largesse, Splurge, Plutocrat, Improvidence, Extravagance, Penny pincher, Cheapskate, Wastrel, Tightwad, Wasteful, Extravagant, Prodigal, Profligate

United States under present wasteful legislation and administration.
In what sense is a person does wasteful?
This is wasteful and exacerbates the performance issues.
CAPS were however wasteful in the second half.
Promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
Inhumane, Ineffective, and Wasteful, Southern Poverty Law Center.
Certain orthodox economists have criticized mining as wasteful.
Such a partisan strategy is wasteful and polarizing.
Politics seems very wasteful of time and money.
FRUITLESS AND WASTEFUL EXPENDITUREThere was no fruitless or wasteful expenditure incurred during the period under review.

Spending money does not mean becoming a spendthrift.
Spendthrift Trust, rather than setting it up directly.
The Trust did not contain a spendthrift clause.
He was a spendthrift, always deeply in debt.
Nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no spendthrift.
There are some limits to spendthrift protection, however.
Exemptions in the Nature of a Spendthrift Trust.
For more on spendthrift protection, see Subsection IV.
Under this provision, if a spendthrift provision is valid, a beneficiary cannot transfer an interest that violates the spendthrift provision.
Generally, to create a spendthrift trust, the trust agreement must simply include a spendthrift clause.