Definition of Wastrel. Meaning of Wastrel. Synonyms of Wastrel

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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...
- which he starred in for Martin Ritt, Under Ten Flags (1960), and The Wastrel (1961). In Hollywood he appeared on The **** Powell Theatre. Heflin went...
- group, "Young Company". Their father requested Haji Mastan to give his wastrel sons decent employment. On Mastan's instructions, they worked in an electronic...
- Run, and in various stand-up performances. He is an unemplo**** Mancunian wastrel with a particular hatred of students. His catchphrase, spoken to disparage...
- portra**** as a wayward youth who enjoys the society of petty criminals and wastrels, a depiction which draws on exaggerations of the historical Prince Henry's...
- younger surviving son, Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt, whom he regarded as a wastrel, he left the income from a $200,000 trust fund. (Although his daughters...
- lady tells her past. Arulappasamy is a young man who is an alcoholic and wastrel and also a constant embarr****ment to his hardworking adopted parents. Esther...
- Sangama (1975), stating, "Like in that film, Rajinikanth is a card-playing wastrel with henchmen in tow. Just like the Thimmaraya character in Katha Sangama...
- also a lazy wastrel, who survives lying and cheating people. He has only two souls to support, one is his friend Michael who is also a wastrel. The other...
- the name of John or Jack, while pretending that he must worry about a wastrel younger brother in London, named Ernest. Meanwhile, he ****umes the identity...