英语词汇“wastrel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	wastrel
释义	was·trel I. \ˈwāstrəl sometimes ˈwäs-\ noun (-s) Etymology: waste (II) + -rel (as in scoundrel) 1. dialect England : a piece of waste land beside a road 2. a. : something rejected or discarded as useless or imperfect < wastrels from the workshops of neolithic peoples — A.H.Keane > < in the first thinning only the wastrels and dead trees are removed — John Simpson > b. : an emaciated and unhealthy animal 3. a. : good-for-nothing, profligate < was regarded as essentially a wastrel and, given the opportunity, a Grade A guttersnipe — Stanley Walker > b. : vagabond, waif < the girlish wastrel who had drifted into the house — Harper's > 4. : one that wastes : spendthrift, waster < a spendthrift and wastrel of the world's stored energy — W.P.Webb > II. adjective 1. : rejected as defective : worthless 2. : wasting or going to waste : spendthrift < the end of his now wastrel ways — Maristan Chapman >
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