• Wastrel

    Origin

    1847, waste + -rel("(pejorative)").

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    Noun

    wastrel

    (plural wastrels)
    1. (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
      • 1929, Virginia Woolf, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22Mary'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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