wastrel
[wey-struh l]
noun
a wasteful person; spendthrift.
Chiefly British.
- refuse; waste.
- a waif; abandoned child.
- an idler or good-for-nothing.
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And yon riff-raff, his spitten picter, is no'but some wastrel merry-begot.
A Son of HagarSir Hall Caine
A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!
The Pagan MadonnaHarold MacGrath
It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.
The Rough RoadWilliam John Locke
Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.
After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.
The Lady of the ShroudBram Stoker
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