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Wastrel

British pronunciation/wˈɑːstɹə‍l/
American pronunciation/wˈæstɹəl/
Wastrel
[NOUN]
1

someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently

synonyms : waster
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Examples
1And wastrel wander about quoting Lewis Carroll, William Hughes Mearns, and WB Yeats.
2So keep your eyes and ears peeled, wastrels!
3The picture conveys Rembrandt’s moving and very intimate realisation about the true nature of love: it reaches out to the selfish idiot, to the wastrel, to the passion-driven fool.
4To prone to treating the younger man like a wastrel son instead of a lover.
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