单词 | wastrel |
释义 | wastrel (once / 17080 pages) n Your brother who spends money as quickly as he gets it, always wearing new clothes and taking friends out for expensive dinners? You might call him a wastrel, meaning he spends his money foolishly. The word wastrel looks and sounds like waste, which means, as a verb, "to spend or use carelessly" — as a noun, it's the thing that is not used effectively. A wastrel is someone who tends to waste things, careless with anything from money to time, and everything else, too. You can tell wastrels by behavior like running the water while brushing their teeth or spending every dime they have on ice cream and luxurious sweaters. WORD FAMILYwastrel: wastrels USAGE EXAMPLES“I was repeatedly punished for my wastrel ways,” he said. Washington Times(Jul 23, 2016) The two of them have a meet-cute at a convenience store and spend a whole magical day together getting stoned and being wastrels. The Guardian(Feb 19, 2016) Depending on whom you ask, he was either the personification of a sophisticated and ambitious Canada or a socialist wastrel libertine. New York Times(Dec 08, 2015) n someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently Syn|Hyper waster prodigal, profligate, squanderer a recklessly extravagant consumer |
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