The meaning of Wastrels

idiom

To not involve someone or something

Usage examples:

This argument has nothing to do with me., much of the bill has nothing to do with civil rights.

verb

Make a continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

In the far distance a machine droned

noun

A continuous low humming sound.

Usage examples:

He nodded off to the drone of the car engine

noun

A low, continuous noise

Usage examples:

I could hear the drone of an airplane., the radio droned in the background while we talked.

noun

A person who is thought of as worthless

Usage examples:

She’s a lazy good-for-nothing.

noun

A person who avoids work or spends time in an aimless or lazy way.

Usage examples:

They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vaga…

adjective

(of a person) avoiding work; lazy.

Usage examples:

Idle students

noun

A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Usage examples:

Staff were under enormous pressure and there was no time for laggards

adjective

Slower than desired or expected.

Usage examples:

A bell to summon laggard children to school

noun

A company, organization, etc. that does something later, or improves less quickly, than others

Usage examples:

Mexico, long a laggard in financial reform, is at last putting its banks in order., steel companies…

noun

A person who habitually does little or no work.

Usage examples:

‘how'd you get mixed up with that layabout?’

noun

A person who is unwilling to work

noun

A person who avoids work and spends their time idly.

Usage examples:

The sophisticated loafer always finds an excuse to avoid work.

noun

A type of shoe with stitches around the top and without shoelaces (= strings used to tie shoes)

noun

A person or thing that loses or has lost something, especially a game or contest.

Usage examples:

He was the loser in the race

noun

A person who is defeated, or someone who regularly fails

Usage examples:

When she found out she’d been accepted to the program because of her low scores, she felt like a lo…

noun

Shares that lose value on a particular day

Usage examples:

On the london stock exchange, losers beat gainers 1,353 to 823., in every deal, there are winners a…

noun

A comfortable chair for relaxing on, especially an outdoor chair that adjusts or extends, allowing a person to recline.

Usage examples:

Kate was lying on a lounger beside a pool

noun

A comfortable chair on which people can sit or lie in order to relax, especially outside in hot weather

Usage examples:

A sun lounger

idiom

An idle worthless person

noun

A person who is lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

A bit of a ne'er-do-well whose only interests seemed to be cards and boozing

adjective

Lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

His ne'er-do-well father walked out before he was born

adjective

Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

Usage examples:

Prodigal habits die hard

noun

A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way.

Usage examples:

He hated rich prodigals who lived useless, imprudent lives

adjective

Tending to spend or use something without thinking of the future

Usage examples:

He was prodigal with his talents.

adjective

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

Usage examples:

Profligate consumers of energy

noun

A licentious, dissolute person.

Usage examples:

He is a drunkard and a profligate

abbreviation

Second(s).

contraction

Is.

Usage examples:

It's raining

prefix

(used chiefly in oaths) god's.

Usage examples:

'sblood

noun

Someone who avoids something, especially work

Usage examples:

We have no room for shirkers in this office.

noun

A person who is lazy and has low standards of cleanliness.

Usage examples:

He's a slob and expects others to clean up after him

verb

Behave in a lazy and slovenly way.

Usage examples:

He spent his life watching television and generally slobbing around

noun

A person who is messy, unattractive, and rude

Usage examples:

Some guys are real slobs., a working slob

noun

A tough-skinned terrestrial mollusc which typically lacks a shell and secretes a film of mucus for protection. it can be a serious plant pest.

Usage examples:

Slugs and snails are mainly nocturnal, and the sun's heat can be fatal to slugs and to all mollusc …

verb

Drink (something, typically alcohol) in a large draught; swig.

Usage examples:

She picked up her drink and slugged it straight back

noun

A hard blow.

Usage examples:

Adam frowned and gave him a hard slug in the shoulder.

noun

A lazy person who stays in bed late.

Usage examples:

I was awake at 6: 00 a.m. while the hardened slugabeds wanted to sleep the day away.

noun

A lazy, sluggish person.

Usage examples:

I'm waiting for those sluggards to bring my steak

noun

A lazy person

Usage examples:

He is a sluggard who loves sleep and hates work.

noun

A person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way.

Usage examples:

Putt was a spendthrift and a heavy gambler

noun

A person who wastes money, or spends more than is necessary

Usage examples:

I’m not a spendthrift and i really have to think about my purchases.

noun

Someone who spends too much money without thinking about the results

Usage examples:

The changes in the law seem to punish districts for good financial management while rewarding spend…

noun

A wasteful person or thing.

Usage examples:

You are a great waster of time