noun
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a person or thing that wastes
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a ne'er-do-well; wastrel
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an article spoiled in manufacture
Etymology
Origin of waster
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French wastere, wastour ( see -or 2); later understood as waste + -er 1
Example Sentences
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Best Time Waster: Once again the show decided to air one of the pros’ audition tapes.
From Time • Sep. 24, 2014
His app, Bubble Ball, just beat out Angry Birds for the Biggest Time Waster at Work award, and last week became the most popular free app in the , reports The New York Observer.
From Inc • Jan. 19, 2011
But the band's final three songs – "Up the Bracket", "What a Waster" and "I Get Along" – clatter out in energetic triumph.
From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2010
Most wintry sign of all I think, as I close the window hastily, is the open farm-stile, its poles lying embedded in the snow where they were last flung by Waster Lunny's herd.
From Auld Licht Idyls by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
I waded and jumped my way as near to the farm as I dared go, and Waster Lunny, seeing me, came to the water’s edge.
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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