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Meanings of wastrel in English
Portuguese
desperdiçador Spanish
derrochador Synonyms
Examples for "waster"
Examples for "waster"
1
By the way, their offer about the special waster is still open.
2
And the text saith moreover, I have created the waster to destroy.
3
Heidi: The sequester blame game is really the biggest time-waster around this.
4
And yet Australia is the world's number one waster of food.
5
You're the sign most likely to over- emphasize one particular and unnecessary time-waster!
Usage of wastrel in English
1
Shillito cheated you; he's a plausible wastrel, but you found him out.
2
The wastrel, the ne'er-do-well, who went mostly nobly to a fine end.
3
I'm ashamed to remember that I said he was a shiftless wastrel.
4
The wastrel frowned; he fiddled with his frayed and filthy collar.
5
He's an easy enough sort to read, wastrel that he is.
6
He of all people despised his father for being a wastrel.
7
The wastrel, Shalhassan thought, struggling to fight the immediate overwhelming impression of effortless elegance.
8
The wastrel one has no use for is the fellow who keeps it up.
9
Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.
10
The wastrel cast a wild look about him and fled.
11
So much for the wastrel as Nature has left him.
12
Bob was something of a wastrel; his wife has made him a useful man.
13
The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.
14
God, man, I'd be a desolate, helpless wastrel without you!'
15
Yes, his friends were Nuevists, but not decadent or wastrel nor satisfied only to shock.
16
This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.
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Wastrel across language varieties
United Kingdom
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