And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.
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Wastrel
//ˈweɪstɹəl//
Synonyms for "wastrel" (120 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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6 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 7 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- bjerraditës noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Bulgarian
1 entries- разсипник noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Georgian
4 entries- არაფრისმაქნისი noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
- მფლანგველი noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
- უქნარა noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
- ფანტია noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
German
1 entries- Verschwender noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Macedonian
1 entries- ра́сипник noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Māori
1 entries- kūrapa noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Polish
2 entries- utracjusz noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
- utracjuszka noun (A person who wastes resources and/or time.)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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Party politics didn’t come naturally to me. I was a twentysomething crypto-anarchist wastrel from the outer suburbs of Bristol who’d spent five years after university moving between jobs and getting distracted.
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