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What is a wastrel?

What is a wastrel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
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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.

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