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Definition of Wastrel

Wastrel
Wastrel Wast"rel, n. 1. Any waste thing or substance; as: (a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] --Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Meaning of Wastrel from wikipedia

- The Wastrel (Italian: Il relitto) is a 1961 Italian-Cypriot drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Ellie Lambeti. It was entered into...
- Monstrous CompendiumOuter Planes Appendix (1991) Vorr Normal and Shaman Wastrel Wraithworm Yugoloth, Canoloth Fiend distinguished by its sticky barbed...
- goes by the name of Jack, while pretending that he must worry about a wastrel younger brother in London, named 'Ernest.' Meanwhile, he ****umes the identity...
- and villager in LV Prasad's Bidaai (1974), a beedi and ganji sporting wastrel in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chaitali (1975), a romantic in BR Chopra's Nikaah...
- twice. Biographer Andrew Roberts wrote he was an "argumentative drunken wastrel". He married Françoise **** Jouet, with whom he had four children live...
- British artist William Hogarth, which tells the story of a fashionable wastrel descending into ruin. W. H. Auden and writer Chester Kallman worked on...
- from the neighborhood. Their father requested Haji Mastan to give his wastrel sons decent employment. On Mastan's instructions, they worked in an electronic...
- and support. In 2014, People's Daily ranked Chan as one of China's top "wastrel" fuerdai. Chan's arrest in 2014 severely affected his career, and he lost...
- all is vanity.: 661  The dialogue ends with Diderot calling the nephew a wastrel, a coward, and a glutton devoid of spiritual values to which the nephew...
- Subrahmanyam aka Subbu aka Subhash is the youngest son of a family. He is a wastrel and gypsy and spends his days roaming around with girls, hanging around...