Definitions for wastrel

wastrel wast·rel

Spelling: [wey-struh l]
IPA: /ˈweɪ strəl/

Wastrel is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in wastrel (aelrstw).

Definitions for wastrel

noun

  1. a wasteful person; spendthrift.
  2. Chiefly British. refuse; waste. a waif; abandoned child. an idler or good-for-nothing.

Origin of wastrel

First recorded in 1580-90; waste + -rel

Examples for wastrel

Drunkenness and an iron social system manufactured the criminal, the wastrel, the lunatic, and we dealt with the waste product.

He came from Stappen under Snaefell, and was known there for a wastrel.

This is the life of the wastrel, the fallen, the man who knows no better.

A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!

After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.

It was only then that he realized fully the merits of the wastrel Phineas McPhail.

And yon riff-raff, his spitten picter, is no'but some wastrel merry-begot.

But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray.

It would be almost truer to say that everybody loves a wastrel.

I knew that I was not in reality the solitary survivor of the wastrel.

Word Value for wastrel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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