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Meanings of wastrel in English

Portuguese
desperdiçador
Spanish
derrochador

Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently.

desperdiçador
Usage of wastrel in English
1
Shillito cheated you; he's a plausible wastrel, but you found him out.
Lister's Great Adventure
2
The wastrel, the ne'er-do-well, who went mostly nobly to a fine end.
The Ragged Edge
3
I'm ashamed to remember that I said he was a shiftless wastrel.
The Girl from Keller's
4
The wastrel frowned; he fiddled with his frayed and filthy collar.
A Chair on the Boulevard
5
He's an easy enough sort to read, wastrel that he is.
Too wicked to kiss
6
He of all people despised his father for being a wastrel.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
7
The wastrel, Shalhassan thought, struggling to fight the immediate overwhelming impression of effortless elegance.
The wandering fire
8
The wastrel one has no use for is the fellow who keeps it up.
Lister's Great Adventure
9
Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.
Howards End
10
The wastrel cast a wild look about him and fled.
Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
11
So much for the wastrel as Nature has left him.
Somewhere in Red Gap
12
Bob was something of a wastrel; his wife has made him a useful man.
The Girl from Keller's
13
The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.
Howards End
14
God, man, I'd be a desolate, helpless wastrel without you!'
In the Roaring Fifties
15
Yes, his friends were Nuevists, but not decadent or wastrel nor satisfied only to shock.
Iron Council
16
This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.
The Man in the Twilight
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Portuguese
desperdiçador
Wastrel through the time
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