wastrel
noun/ˈweɪstrəl/
/ˈweɪstrəl/
(literary)- a lazy person who spends their time and/or money in a careless and stupid wayTopics Personal qualitiesc2Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel.
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