Associations to the word «Wastrel»

Wiktionary

WASTREL, noun. (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.

Dictionary definition

WASTREL, noun. Someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope