Usage of "wastrel" | TermGallery

português

espanhol

Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently.

Uso de wastrel em inglês

Shillito cheated you; he's a plausible wastrel, but you found him out. 
 Lister's Great Adventure 

The wastrel, the ne'er-do-well, who went mostly nobly to a fine end. 
 The Ragged Edge 

I'm ashamed to remember that I said he was a shiftless wastrel. 
 The Girl from Keller's 

The wastrel frowned; he fiddled with his frayed and filthy collar. 
 A Chair on the Boulevard 

He's an easy enough sort to read, wastrel that he is. 
 Too wicked to kiss 

He of all people despised his father for being a wastrel. 
 A conspiracy of paper: a novel 

The wastrel, Shalhassan thought, struggling to fight the immediate overwhelming impression of effortless elegance. 
 The wandering fire 

The wastrel one has no use for is the fellow who keeps it up. 
 Lister's Great Adventure 

Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely. 
 Howards End 

The wastrel cast a wild look about him and fled. 
 Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales 

So much for the wastrel as Nature has left him. 
 Somewhere in Red Gap 

Bob was something of a wastrel; his wife has made him a useful man. 
 The Girl from Keller's 

The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom. 
 Howards End 

God, man, I'd be a desolate, helpless wastrel without you!' 
 In the Roaring Fifties 

Yes, his friends were Nuevists, but not decadent or wastrel nor satisfied only to shock. 
 Iron Council 

This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better. 
 The Man in the Twilight 

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Translations for wastrel

português

espanhol

Wastrel ao longo do tempo

Wastrel nas variantes da língua

Reino Unido

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Significados de wastrel em inglês