英语词汇“wastrel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wastrel

/ˈweɪstr(ə)l

noun

1 literary A wasteful or good-for-nothing person: I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son...

This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.
In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.
These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals.

Synonyms

spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer

informal big spender

idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed

informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones

British informal skiver

2 archaic A waif; a neglected child.

Late 16th century (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel.

单词	wastrel
释义	wastrel /ˈweɪstr(ə)l / noun 1 literary A wasteful or good-for-nothing person: I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son... This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks. In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels. These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals. Synonyms spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer informal big spender idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones British informal skiver 2 archaic A waif; a neglected child. Origin Late 16th century (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel.
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