12 example sentences using wastrel.
Wastrel used in a sentence
Wastrel in a sentence as a noun
It's your own fault you lent it to a wastrel.
> Someone still has to work to produce the food that UBI wastrels consume.
Billionaires who live gigawatt lives need to be seen as the wastrels they are.
> you could fix it with taxesSomeone still has to work to produce the food that UBI wastrels consume.
If I told someone who couldn't feed their kids what I was doing, they'd have looked at me like I was the biggest wastrel in the world.
And I'm not even talking about "cushy job for the wastrel nephew" nepotism.
If you're setting hiring policies, you want to stop people from hiring their incompetent brother-in-laws or wastrel friends.
Shortchanging a real analysis starts even a clean-cut engineer down the slippery ***** to the wastrel vagabond’s life.
Contrast the success of immigrant families who struggle to get an education for a child with the wastrel habits of many "rich kids".Care is critical.
If we penalise the saver and favour the wastrel, we incentivise and get less savings and investment, hence in the long term less growth and lower standards of living for everyone.
"and Luxembourg:"The government of Luxembourg, however, has recently grown fed up with wastrel youths applying for unemployment benefits while still living with their parents.
The history of Sparta is a classic example: our Greek sources here all talk up how wonderful Sparta is with its notions of equality and avoidance of luxury, and contain postscripts saying "but of course, this is the Sparta of yesteryear and not the Sparta of today, which is exactly the kind of wastrel that I'm condemning.
Wastrel definitions
someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
See also: waster