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wastrel::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | waster |
| Type of | prodigal, profligate, squanderer |
Examples of wastrel
wastrel
All those years when you thought junior was a wastrel, you overlooked one thing.
From the economist.com
Its not the electorate that keeps putting in place one wastrel after another.
From the forbes.com
He is an unemployed Manchester wastrel with a particular hatred of students.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They rallied to save some of the most abusive and wastrel government agencies around.
From the ocregister.com
Lily, however, humbly struggled to care for her wastrel husband and disapproving in-laws.
From the tennessean.com
Coleridge was a wastrel who spent his time devising unrealisable schemes.
From the economist.com
Instead, the wastrel learns to endure her and discover the joys of financial management.
From the time.com
Darroussin gives an excellent performance, agonised as his wastrel son leaves for the front.
From the guardian.co.uk
Later, when I was a rebel, an agnostic and a wastrel, he loved me back into the Christian fold.
From the kentucky.com
- Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
- The Wastrel (Il relitto) is a 1961 Italian-Cypriot drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
- One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly
- A wastrel is a spendthrift who has no value for money. He is basically a vagabond and loafer. His extravagance goes out of bounds. I think I have defined wastrel in an extreme form and now the word requires no further explanation. ...
