How to Use wastrel in a Sentence

wastrel

noun
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  • But those damn wastrel Republicans keep putting their hands in the till.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • First, the history plays, in their arc and purpose, trace the development of the wastrel prince into the hero king.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Set in a town called Bedford and peopled by the kind of deliciously self-absorbed upper-class wastrels...
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 May 2020
  • McCoy is certain that the victims’ deaths can be traced to the door of the richest family in Glasgow—whose ice-cold patriarch and his wastrel son are rumored to host orgies laced with drugs and sadism.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • When all is said and done, Biden may get enough spending to allow Republicans to attack him as a wastrel and not enough spending to excite his own partisans.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The novel doesn’t quite persuade us as to why this noble character would have any interest at all in this useless, self-defeating wastrel.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The representatives of the most obviously self-indulgent wastrel ever to waddle through the White House?
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Eddie is a wastrel, but one who does his own grocery-shopping, fervently embraces his frumpy wife, and enthuses over the Boston Bruins’ Bobby Orr.
    — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • The author’s wastrel sons, Denis and Adrian, depended on income from the detective to finance addictions to fast cars and big-game hunting, which at times threatened to bankrupt the Estate.
    — Michael Saler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The story of Fitzgerald as a wastrel and a victim of his own indiscipline is attractive but exaggerated.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • Beneath the retro kitsch of hairspray, lycra, and Jane Fonda workouts is a winning examination of friendship and ambition, built around a cast of misfit performers and their brash wastrel of a director (Marc Maron).
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Was Johnny Depp an innocent fleeced at the hands of Hollywood hucksters or a scheming artful dodger attempting to sue his way out of his wastrel lifestyle and outrageous spending and any remaining debt to his former business managers?
    — Mark Seal, Vanities, 11 July 2017
  • Lee plays Gi-hun, a penniless wastrel who gambles too much, steals from his family, gets beaten up by loan sharks and accepts a mysterious invitation to become contender #456 in the deadly competition.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021

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