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wastrel
noun literary
1 her money was gambled away by her wastrel of a husband:
spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer;
informal big spender.
2 he was mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying:
idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed;
informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones;
British, informal skiver.
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