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单词 wastrel
释义
wastrelwas‧trel /ˈweɪstrəl/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINwastrel
Origin:
1500-1600 waste + -rel (as in scoundrel)
Examples
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  • Another time, Lucy talked about Jeremy, his father's wastrel shadow ever in the background.
  • But these two spent their gifts like wastrels.
  • The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounwastagewastewastefulnesswasterwastreladjectivewastewastefulwastedwastingverbwasteadverbwastefully
literary a lazy person who does not try to achieve anything in life
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