wastrel
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Any waste thing or substance
Waste land or common land.
A profligate.
A neglected child; a street Arab.
Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
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It is possible that Henry’s biological father is not the improvident wastrel he’s grown up with (whose luck has to turn soon), but the exploitative, murderously successful businessman, Suthers.
Playing against type, Cary Grant makes Johnnie an imposing charmer, wastrel and cad.
The "beauty" depicted, you see, could be that chubby wastrel on the shore, but also the billboard of some Botero-sized babe adorning the games of chance, like SkeeBall, on the Coney Island boardwalk itself.
Dashton Rafferdy is the wastrel son of one of Altania's great magnates who views claims that he is descended from one of the great magical families as a potentially dangerous distraction from his pursuit of shallow enjoyment.