Synonyms for wastrel
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wey-struh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪ strəl |
Définition of wastrel
Origin :- "spendthrift, idler," 1847, from waste (v.) + pejorative suffix -rel.
- noun loafer
- And yon riff-raff, his spitten picter, is no'but some wastrel merry-begot.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!
- Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
- It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.
- Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
- Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.
- Extract from : « Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross » by John Huston Finley
- After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.
- Extract from : « The Lady of the Shroud » by Bram Stoker
- He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.
- Extract from : « The Bondman » by Hall Caine
- I knew that I was not in reality the solitary survivor of the Wastrel.
- Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
- It would be almost truer to say that everybody loves a wastrel.
- Extract from : « The Book of This and That » by Robert Lynd
- But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray.
- Extract from : « The "Genius" » by Theodore Dreiser
- This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.
- Extract from : « The Man in the Twilight » by Ridgwell Cullum
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