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. |
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. |
The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed. |
But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother. |
Society is based on the family, and the clever wastrel can exploit this indefinitely. |
On his own, he definitely quits drinking at 21 and, from a wastrel, becomes ascetic. |