Sentence examples for a wastrel from inspiring English sources

In his parents' eyes, Will is basically a wastrel.

Coleridge was a wastrel who spent his time devising unrealisable schemes.

He was, moreover, dissolute and seemed well on the road to becoming a wastrel.

— but a wastrel the girl passes carrying a sign reading "Jeremiah 11 11".

New York has always been a wastrel with its cultural treasures.

Enter a wastrel son, with a mysterious boy in tow, who could be his son.

We get a writer, a butcher, a wealthy wastrel, an African car mechanic, a God-mocking doctor, a flirt who wears dark glasses to hide her bruises, and a detective with an irritating boyfriend, who insists on speaking in a bad Bronx accent.

By contrast, Davy Crockett was, as V. L. Parrington, the literary critic, dubbed him, "a frontier wastrel," a rapacious aggressor and "a huge Western joke".

Clarke lampooned some of the involved parties, referring to Lycett Green as "a Master of Hounds who hunts four days a week", while Stanley Wilson was a spoiled wastrel from a rich family who lacked initiative and drive.

With perfect brushstrokes, the Jew can present the German entrepreneur as a capitalist wastrel and a German maiden as a lewd harlot.

But that doesn't mean that this 21-year-old gets any special treatment at home, where she lives with her mom and a baby brother she has immortalized in song as a stoner wastrel in a "stupid fitted cap".