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How to use wastrel in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wastrel? Here are some examples.

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But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
It charts the love story of a rich wastrel who falls for a workaholic woman doctor.
In the picturesque port city of Bahia, Flor, a lovely young woman, marries the wastrel Vadinho, a compulsive wencher who beats her.
Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.
Thus he contemplates both Shakespeare's stinginess and his peculiar kind of generosity, an imaginative one that transformed a dying wastrel into the immortal Falstaff.
What matters now is that London makes the best of its folly and beats the sorry standards set by past wastrel hosts of the sporting jamboree.
On his own, he definitely quits drinking at 21 and, from a wastrel, becomes ascetic.
Her brother-in-law Uncle Bob, once a politician with some ideals, is now a drunken wastrel with a bad stomach who still lurches after women, and eats piggishly.
The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
Alternatively, you may be asking Germans and Dutch to forgive the wastrel Greek government's public debt, or asking Americans to let their wastrel neighbours write down their mortgage debt with public assistance.
Coleridge was a wastrel who spent his time devising unrealisable schemes.
From that point on, family relationships were strained to the limit, with daughter Elizabeth eventually taking over the family reins when Henri turns out to be a cynical wastrel and is thrown out of the household.
Though Caine is a previous winner, Law is already thought to be a surefire bet for his performance as a wastrel American shipping heir in The Talented Mr Ripley.
An alcoholic, Burton's failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues and fueled his legend as a great thespian wastrel.
He was given the reins of power of the free world, and he just continued to fritter them away on inconsequentialities, like a wastrel child who spends the family fortune.
Examples from Classical Literature
Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely.
Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.
After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.
The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed.
It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.
And yon riff-raff, his spitten picter, is no'but some wastrel merry-begot.
A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!
This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.
The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.
I knew that I was not in reality the solitary survivor of the wastrel.
It would be almost truer to say that everybody loves a wastrel.
The weak-kneed wastrel let fall the box with a thud upon the floor.
He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.
But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray.
It leaves wastrel JP, who's letting Mel do all the loglumping and through-thenight fire-stoking, as the only functioning male left going into tomorrow night's climax.
Prince Wastrel, aka Harry, inherits PS10million from his mother Princess Diana's estate on his 30th birthday in 10 days' time.
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