Learn WASTREL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. A man's a poor bit of a wastrel blown about.
2. His neighbors denounced him as a wastrel who had dissipated his inheritance.
3. Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.
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