waster
a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
a piece of ceramic ware warped, cracked, or melted during firing.
a spendthrift or wastrel.
a destroyer: The Vandals were wasters of cities.
Chiefly British. wastrel (def. 2).
Origin of waster
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How to use waster in a sentence
The new big time-waster I can report is meetings about deals for which neither party wants to pay any money.
Then caused the King his banner Land-waster to be borne aloft, and Fridrek was the man hight who bore the banner.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonBut it becomes intolerable to that waster who, though not desiring 154 genuine occupation, desires genuine sensation.
The Women of Tomorrow | William HardI have described her as a waster of food when her larva is established, according to custom, in the cell of the Mason-bee.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreFor the horses of K3 were certainly quite wonderful, and Snatty was undoubtedly a "waster."
Servants of the Guns | Jeffery E. Jeffery
Inside, he found the waster interestedly poking with his stick at a roundish object on the floor.
Bunker Bean | Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for waster
/ (ˈweɪstə) /
a person or thing that wastes
a ne'er-do-well; wastrel
an article spoiled in manufacture
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