wastrels 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. But these two spent their gifts like wastrels.