Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently.
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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