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Synonyms of wastrel in English:

wastrel


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noun

1‘her money was gambled away by her wastrel of a husband’

SYNONYMS
spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, squanderer
informal big spender

2‘he was mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying’

SYNONYMS
idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, drone, ne'er-do-well, do-nothing, layabout, slob, lounger, shirker, sluggard, slug, laggard, slugabed
informal waster, loser, slacker, lazybones
British informal skiver