(1) But to the contrary, the people were sympathetic towards her for having no father and a wastrel of a brother.(2) I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son(3) His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.(4) This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks.(5) In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels .(6) These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels , neurotic misfits or criminals.
