wastrel

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noun loafer

noun. idler

noun. person who is idle, worthless

noun. bum

noun. bum

noun. person who is idle, lazy

noun. irresponsible person

"spendthrift, idler," 1847, from waste (v.) + pejorative suffix -rel.

And yon riff-raff, his spitten picter, is no'but some wastrel merry-begot.

A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!

It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.

Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.

After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.

He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.

I knew that I was not in reality the solitary survivor of the Wastrel.

It would be almost truer to say that everybody loves a wastrel.

But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray.

This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.