The word "wastrel" refers to a person who wastes their time, money, or resources and has no ambition or purpose in life.
Sentences with «wastrel»
Dudley Do - Right, the television cartoon version of the proverbially virtuous Canadian Mountie, always came up against Snidely Whiplash, a rascally wastrel who was very hard to subdue. (scientificamerican.com)
In this scurrilous re-working of the Arthurian myths, the foul - mouthed, drunken wastrels of the Round Table reluctantly attempt to fulfil their Quests in a medieval England populated by a cast of violent, duplicitous and insolent grotesques. (dailyfreebooks.com)
While mopping up the champagne - soaked carpet on a massive yacht, she runs into Eugenio Derbez's playboy Leonardo — the party - hardy wastrel son of the third richest man in the world, we are told — who not only insults her but pushes her into the drink along with her cleaning gear. (rogerebert.com)