Thesaurus / wastrel
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I pushed all that away with a preoccupied hand, not as part and parcel of my wastrel living but in my assured Artist-temper.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANEDrunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.
CHRISTIANITY AND PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY: LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE LAKE FOREST COLLEGE ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE WILLIAM BROSSJOHN HUSTON FINLEYHe came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.
THE BONDMANHALL CAINEAbove the tiny stone-built village of Wastrel-dale the Muir Pike nods its massive head.
BOB, SON OF BATTLEALFRED OLLIVANTSam'l took him up bodily and carried him down the slope to the Wastrel, shaking him gently as he went.
BOB, SON OF BATTLEALFRED OLLIVANTPublic opinion said that "there would have been no sense in her going dangling after her wastrel of a father."
THE CARD, A STORY OF ADVENTURE IN THE FIVE TOWNSARNOLD BENNETTIndeed it began to come upon him very strongly that she was altogether too good to be thrown away on a wastrel such as Gerald.
A WOMAN'S BURDENFERGUS HUMEDrunkard and wastrel though the man was, those words could not be forgotten, would never be forgotten again.
THE CATHEDRALSIR HUGH WALPOLEHow could he do otherwise, when by no possibility could the suit of such a penniless wastrel as himself be crowned with success?
A TRAITOR'S WOOINGHEADON HILLPoor wee thing, she had given herself t' some wastrel, no doubt!
HARBOR TALES DOWN NORTHNORMAN DUNCANWORDS RELATED TO WASTREL
- beggar
- black sheep
- blackguard
- bully
- bum
- cad
- cardsharp
- charlatan
- cheat
- delinquent
- devil
- disgrace
- felon
- fraud
- good-for-nothing
- grafter
- hooligan
- hypocrite
- idler
- imp
- liar
- loafer
- mischief-maker
- miscreant
- opportunist
- pretender
- prodigal
- profligate
- recreant
- reprobate
- robber
- rowdy
- ruffian
- scamp
- scoundrel
- sinner
- skunk
- sneak
- swindler
- tough
- tramp
- trickster
- varmint
- villain
- wastrel
- wretch
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