wastrel in English

noun
1
a wasteful or good-for-nothing person.
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.
2
a waif; a neglected child.
noun

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1. Study like a dog; play like a wastrel.

2. Eat a hold of, a wastrel!

3. Her father wouldn't let her marry a wastrel.

4. He is a notorious wastrel in our company.

5. What does Boondoggler mean? A person who boondoggles; a wastrel

6. Another time, Lucy talked about Jeremy, his father's wastrel shadow ever in the background.

7. His neighbour denounce him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.

8. Long life and wear resistant. Longer Availability work time and lower wastrel rate, reduce the overall cost.

9. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

10. The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons.

11. The government of Luxembourg, however, has recently grown fed up with wastrel youths applying for unemployment benefits while still living with their parents.

12. Second- and third-place rivals Zhenai and Baihe require an upfront fee or provide a personality matching service intended to filter out wastrel Lotharios.

13. And a mid-movie interlude explores Tony's descent into drunken self-pity in scenes that can't help but recall Downey's own years as a privileged Hollywood wastrel.

14. The troubles that destroyed Tang—the loss of his job, the collapse of his marriage, heartbreak over his wastrel only child—are all too common across China.

15. The result showed that by optimizing the dosage of the waste alkali water and the wastrel, the alkali activated cement with high strength and proper setting time can be prepared.