"wastrel" with a rifle, for his shy eyes gave the lie to his oily tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

He was a wastrel, that one, took the money and ran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

Someone called me a rake and a wastrel very recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing with Clara]

To a hard-bodied, pudding-brained wastrel of a woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Crandell: A is for Amy & Adonis: Chapter W] Reference

But Mansfield, a dedicated wastrel, was the real source of sorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of 'The Fall of the House of Walworth,' by Geoffrey O'Brien] Reference

Or because she was deceived into marriage by a rake and a wastrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing with Clara]

"So far as I hear, my Lord, he's a drunk and a wastrel, " Hogan said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Battle]

He was a wastrel, a gambler I'd have had people after me for his debts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maura's Game]

That wastrel Nevare knew nothing of being a Great Man, nothing of magic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

If that wastrel can survive the storm, Rak must have as well, he thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape From Roksamur]

The wastrel and evil rich — a scion or representative of whom this young Clyde.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

And old Gobelin thinks him a wastrel and a fool, and so does one of the Gobelin sons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

Even the threat of runaway global warming has its villains - us, and our wastrel ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawrence E. Joseph: The Need for Enemies] Reference

Kelly Palumba and a thin straw-haired wastrel called Epsilon were especially concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great California Game]

He was an idler and a wastrel, but in one area his judgment was trustworthy: the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the Earth Turns: How Environmentalism Has Evolved] Reference

"A St. Cleather man, who had planted a wastrel, is to be invited to attend the next meeting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference

You're a wastrel and a bad lot - oh, I daresay it's my fault, among others, but that's by the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman]

I co edited three books that no one ever read, and, in general, pursued a life of a spoiled wastrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Bough Breaks]

On the other hand, perhaps her parents think the boy's a wastrel and they won't give their permission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Thanks to that wastrel Nicholas Montrose, she thought sourly, as her aunt almost skipped from the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seduction Of Sara]

Even though I was born into a life of privilege and patriotism, until I was 30 I was a spoiled wastrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: Why Should it Take a Prison Cell to Raise a Citizen?] Reference

For the rich wastrel looking for a fresh new hotel experience, this is going to be an unmitigated flop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Hamilton: Schrager and Schnabel Unite to Conquer Old New York] Reference

He was a wastrel who would care nothing about the well-being of the estate or neighborhood, she had thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

Unfortunately, Yin proved to be something of a wastrel and was a disappointment to Sun Quan, who banished him. 35.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

The wastrel (as they say in England) has, of course, been celebrated in the literature of the past from time immemorial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

Doubtless with the label of gambling wastrel put upon his person went that of impoverished aristocrat, Ferdinand thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

Cortés's early life in Castile, before he headed off to the New World, was spent unpromisingly as a rogue and a wastrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spain Says Hello] Reference

We're telling our leading banker that we're changing our wastrel ways, so they'll need to find a different way to prosper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Borosage: Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision] Reference

Eight years of this wastrel, spendthrift administration has bankrupted us of our standing and our capital -- it's all gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Will Miss Our Heyday] Reference

"Thomas," protested Miss Jemima, "do you think it would be right to hand over uncle's hard-earned money to that poor wastrel?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

Their hands met, and in the grip each recognized in the other no mere wastrel of Eastern ports, but a man of energy, virility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

He was no wastrel; he had had a spell of foolishness and dissipation, but it needed only his own resolution to put an end to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference

There has always been a contrast between Senator Kennedy, the highly effective lawmaker, and the wastrel Kennedy of Chappaquiddick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sobering Times] Reference

He was never the boorish wastrel that his best friend, John Jacob Astor, was, or the dissolute drunk that Reginald Vanderbilt became.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hostage to Fortune] Reference

For all the blithe disdain and faux righteousness, it reflects the sordid and contemptible attitude of a genuinely wastrel political class.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference