Sentence examples similar to such a wastrel from inspiring English sources
In his parents' eyes, Will is basically a wastrel.
New York has always been a wastrel with its cultural treasures.
Coleridge was a wastrel who spent his time devising unrealisable schemes.
— but a wastrel the girl passes carrying a sign reading "Jeremiah 11 11".
He was, moreover, dissolute and seemed well on the road to becoming a wastrel.
Enter a wastrel son, with a mysterious boy in tow, who could be his son.
The narrator's great-uncle Ambrose lives a golden life serving Cosmo, a wastrel Jewish playboy.
He takes pains to note that Charlie is well educated but has chosen to lead a wastrel's life, subsidized by "occasional remittances" from his family.
His father, considering the 16-year-old a wastrel interested only in game shooting, sent him to study medicine at Edinburgh University in 1825.
Glenn Ford plays Johnny, a wastrel who fetches up in a quaintly imagined Buenos Aires just before the end of the war.
Goya was fond of Javier, but Hughes pronounces him "a flop of a son, lazy and just short of a wastrel.
