Translations for „wastrel“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

wastrel [ˈweɪstrəl] N liter

wastrel

rozrzutnik(-ica) m (f)

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English

And of the two brothers, one is a wastrel and the other is possibly dying of consumption.

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She stood accused of being a wastrel with an overweening sense of entitlement.

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

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

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

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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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Nor was the contrast of productive sisters and wastrel brother purely about artistic poise.

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

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The lazy stigmatising of poor people as junk-food munching wastrels hardly helps either.

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