How To Use wastrel In A Sentence
- Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
- Her father wouldn't let her marry a wastrel.
- But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.
- The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
- It seemed like a place that gave monomaniacs a tannoy: so little space to say so little, Facebook for an older wastrel. Twitter looks chaotic: but don't be afraid
- In the picturesque port city of Bahia, Flor, a lovely young woman, marries the wastrel Vadinho, a compulsive wencher who beats her.
- This doesn't bother me unduly, aware as I am that the skinny wastrels to whom I'm typically attracted are themselves starting to reach the extent of their appeal as the fruits of their dissipation begin to show in their faces.
- Mirthless" is not the kind of adjective that makes its way onto full-page movie ads, but it's the most charitable way of describing the new "Arthur," a remake of the celebrated 1981 comedy about a wealthy wastrel's eviction from dipsomaniacal paradise by his family and Liza Minnelli. 'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down
- Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
- In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.
