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Wastrel   Listen
noun
Wastrel  n.  
1.
Any waste thing or substance; as:
(a)
Waste land or common land. (Obs.)
(b)
A profligate. (Prov. Eng.)
(c)
A neglected child; a street Arab. (Eng.)
2.
Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)





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"Wastrel" Quotes from Famous Books



... not afraid. When once you are on level terms with the community you begin to see what is the true result of drink. The clergyman, the district visitor, the professional slummer—all the people who "patronise"—never learn the truth, and they positively invite the wastrel classes to lie. ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... this showed a woman of vigour—although our conventions did not allow us to treat Clockie or any known wastrel so masterfully—and there was an evident anxiety ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... do wuss," said he; "and the wust I could do 'ad be to give everythin' to that wastrel, Iver, who don't know the vally of a good farm and of a well-established public-house. I don't want nobody after I'm dead and gone to see rack and ruin where all were plenty and good order both on land ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... me, which I certainly had done nothing to deserve, or the fear of the law which, ages before my birth, was painfully built up by the society into which I intruded, that prevented that catastrophe. If I was nourished, cared for, taught, saved from the vagabondage of a wastrel, I certainly am not aware that I did anything to deserve those advantages. And, if I possess anything now, it strikes me that, though I may have fairly earned my day's wages for my day's work, and may justly ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... he watched me near the zenith? Three years back That dream pounced on me and began to soar; Having been sick, my heart had found new lies; The only thoughts I then had ears for were Healthy, virtuous, sweet; Jaded town-wastrel, A country setting was the sole could take me Three years back. Damon might have guessed From such a dizzy height What fall ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various


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