wastrel
/ˈweɪstr(ə)l/
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American sound/ˈweɪstr(ə)l/
wastrel
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was - trel -> wastrel
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- ‘But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.’
- ‘In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels.’
- ‘His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.’
- ‘These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals.’
- ‘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.’
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