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Definition of wastrel in English: wastrelnoun ˈweɪstr(ə)lˈweɪstrəl 1literary A wasteful or good-for-nothing person. 〈诗/文〉浪费的人；无用的人，废物 I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son Example sentencesExamples - These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals.
- This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.
- In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.
- But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
- His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.
Synonyms spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer informal big spender idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones British informal skiver 2archaic A waif; a neglected child. 〈古〉流浪者；流浪儿
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel. Definition of wastrel in US English: wastrelnounˈweɪstrəlˈwāstrəl 1literary A wasteful or good-for-nothing person. 〈诗/文〉浪费的人；无用的人，废物 I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son Example sentencesExamples - In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.
- But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
- His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.
- These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals.
- This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.
Synonyms spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed 2archaic A waif; a neglected child. 〈古〉流浪者；流浪儿
OriginLate 16th century (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel. |