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wastrel

[ wey-struhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a wasteful person; spendthrift:
The wastrel had squandered his inheritance, and then came to her, looking for a handout.
Chiefly British.
1. refuse; waste.
2. a waif; abandoned child.
3. an idler or good-for-nothing.

wastrel

/ ˈweɪstrəl /

Origin of wastrel¹

First recorded in 1580–90; waste + -rel

I pushed all that away with a preoccupied hand, not as part and parcel of my wastrel living but in my assured Artist-temper.

Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.

He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.

Above the tiny stone-built village of Wastrel-dale the Muir Pike nods its massive head.

Sam'l took him up bodily and carried him down the slope to the Wastrel, shaking him gently as he went.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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