wastrel
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In one story, a hollow-eyed masseuse mourns the abrupt, outwardly random death of her son and the loss of her business to the pandemic as her wastrel husband dreams and schemes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
So for a while, Prince Andrew was just Classic Royal, maybe a wastrel and a gadabout in peacetime, but a standup guy in a war.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2019
To the end, as his mother takes up with an aggressive HIV-infected wastrel, we see the vivid excruciations of being the gifted misfit whose parent needs to be rescued.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
“Existing at the pleasure of the advertisers, to mulct the public, gratifying their stupidity, and render some small advance on investment to the owners, offering putative employment to their etiolated, wastrel sons.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2018
Color was splashed through the woods as if it had been thrown about by some madcap wastrel who spilled out, during the weeks of one brief autumn, beauty enough to last for years.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Vocabulary lists containing wastrel
A Room of One's Own
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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