How to Use wastrel in a Sentence

wastrel

noun

• First, the history plays, in their arc and purpose, trace the development of the wastrel prince into the hero king.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2017
• Set in a town called Bedford and peopled by the kind of deliciously self-absorbed upper-class wastrels...
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 May 2020
• McCoy is certain that the victims’ deaths can be traced to the door of the richest family in Glasgow—whose ice-cold patriarch and his wastrel son are rumored to host orgies laced with drugs and sadism.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• When all is said and done, Biden may get enough spending to allow Republicans to attack him as a wastrel and not enough spending to excite his own partisans.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• The novel doesn’t quite persuade us as to why this noble character would have any interest at all in this useless, self-defeating wastrel.
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• The representatives of the most obviously self-indulgent wastrel ever to waddle through the White House?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 7 Feb. 2018
• Eddie is a wastrel, but one who does his own grocery-shopping, fervently embraces his frumpy wife, and enthuses over the Boston Bruins’ Bobby Orr.
  — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• The author’s wastrel sons, Denis and Adrian, depended on income from the detective to finance addictions to fast cars and big-game hunting, which at times threatened to bankrupt the Estate.
  — Michael Saler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The story of Fitzgerald as a wastrel and a victim of his own indiscipline is attractive but exaggerated.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
• Beneath the retro kitsch of hairspray, lycra, and Jane Fonda workouts is a winning examination of friendship and ambition, built around a cast of misfit performers and their brash wastrel of a director (Marc Maron).
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017
• Was Johnny Depp an innocent fleeced at the hands of Hollywood hucksters or a scheming artful dodger attempting to sue his way out of his wastrel lifestyle and outrageous spending and any remaining debt to his former business managers?
  — Mark Seal, Vanities, 11 July 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024