wastrel
1847, waste + -rel (pejorative). Noun
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1847, waste + -rel (pejorative). Noun
wastrel
- (countable, dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
- Mary's mother - if that was her picture - may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.
- 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
- (countable, obsolete) A neglected child.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.
- See also Thesaurus:spendthrift
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