Translations for „wastrel“ in the English » German Dictionary

wast·rel [ˈweɪstrəl] N liter

wastrel

Nichtsnutz m pej veraltend

wastrel

Taugenichts m pej veraltend

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Or later encouraged her two wastrel daughters to stop living high on the hog.

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The vain wastrel heir -- cut off without a penny!

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The wastrel spends his time playing cards with his vagabond pals, and one of the songs in the opening sequences is based on playing cards.

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He was a wastrel from beginning to end.

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Is a man who expenses $200 breakfasts to the taxpayer a wastrel?

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Her summer vibe falls somewhere between cozy dorm-room and stylish wastrel: casual black hoodie, leopard-print shorts, ripped stockings underneath.

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True, the sales bring out the wastrel in many of us.

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We are made to suffer in almost real time alongside a cast of contemporary bohemian wastrels stuck in the back of beyond.

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Like the wastrel son of a self-made man, we're flushing our natural capital down the drain.

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Yang was a gambler and a wastrel, but keen with the political scene.

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