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wastrel

/wey-struhl/US // ˈweɪ strəl //UK // (ˈweɪstrəl) //

浪费者,浪费的人,废物,废人

Related Words

rake耙子,钉耙,耙,钉钯vagrant流浪者,流浪汉,无业游民,游荡者waster浪费,浪费者,废物,废物利用idler怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速vagabond流浪者,无业游民,流浪汉,游民spendthrift大花筒,败家子,浪费者,花钱如流水profligate挥霍无度,淫靡,淫荡,淫乱squanderer挥霍者,浪费者,挥霍无度,挥霍

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wasteful person; spendthrift: The wastrel had squandered his inheritance, and then came to her, looking for a handout.
    • : Chiefly British. refuse; waste. a waif; abandoned child.an idler or good-for-nothing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounloafer
Synonyms
idler怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速profligate挥霍无度,淫靡,淫荡,淫乱rake耙子,钉耙,耙,钉钯spendthrift大花筒,败家子,浪费者,花钱如流水squanderer挥霍者,浪费者,挥霍无度,挥霍vagabond流浪者,无业游民,流浪汉,游民vagrant流浪者,流浪汉,无业游民,游荡者waster浪费,浪费者,废物,废物利用

Examples

  • I pushed all that away with a preoccupied hand, not as part and parcel of my wastrel living but in my assured Artist-temper.

  • Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.

  • He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.

  • Above the tiny stone-built village of Wastrel-dale the Muir Pike nods its massive head.

  • Sam'l took him up bodily and carried him down the slope to the Wastrel, shaking him gently as he went.

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