Wastrel example sentences
Related (6): Profligate, spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer, fritterer, dissipated.
"Wastrel" Example Sentences
Common Phrases
- The wastrel spent his entire inheritance on gambling and partying.
- His father was disgusted with him for being such a wastrel.
- The princess refused to marry the wastrel who had no ambition and no job.
- The wastrel's old friends refused to lend him any more money.
- The parents of the wastrel finally cut him off financially in hopes of teaching him responsibility.
- The wastrel frittered away his opportunities and squandered his potential.
- The wealthy wastrel associated with questionable characters who supplied him with illegal substances.
- His life was a mess and going nowhere, but the wastrel showed no motivation to change his wasteful ways.
- The nobleman's family disowned him after years of him being a wastrel and an embarrassment to the family name.
- The wastrel spent most of his time drinking and gambling instead of working.
- The prodigal son returned home after years of being a wastrel and a ne'er-do-well.
- The wastrel was accustomed to living beyond his means and going into debt.
- The wastrel led a life of self-indulgence with no restraint.
- Everyone just shook their head and sighed when they saw the young wastrel coming down the street.
- The wastrel's irresponsible lifestyle eventually caught up with him when he had no money and no one to help him.
- His aunt called him a "lazy wastrel" who was not worth helping anymore.
- The wastrel roamed the streets with no purpose and nowhere to go.
- The young wastrel brought shame upon his family with his foolishness and squandering of opportunities.
- The servants despised the wastrel heir for the disorder he brought into the household.
- The wastrel was known for misusing his many talents and wasting opportunities.
- After years of being a wastrel and a ne'er-do-well, he finally decided to get a job and turn his life around.
- His reckless, hedonistic lifestyle made him seem like a wastrel in the eyes of his friends and family.
- The wastrel's behavior became more and more indecent as his funds dwindled.
- Many employers refused to hire the wastrel because he had no work ethic or reliability.
- Even his closest friends avoided the drug-addicted wastrel for fear of being dragged down.
- Eventually the debts of the wastrel caught up with him and he found himself in serious trouble.
- His parents tried for years to get the wastrel to be more responsible but to no avail.
- His mother cried for years about her wastrel son who brought her nothing but pain.
- The wastrel's constant demands for money only frustrated and annoyed his relatives.
- The sight of the drunken wastrel brought sadness to anyone who knew him and remembered who he used to be.
- The wastrel soldier squandered his meager wages on alcohol and women.
- Eventually the wastrel ran out of people to borrow money from and found himself destitute.
- The wastrel begged for spare change outside the very establishments he had frequented in his more prosperous days.
- His surprised friends rejoiced when the wastrel finally got a job and began saving money.
- The aging wastrel reminisced about the youth he had squandered and opportunities he had discarded.
- Unable to help or change him, his family disowned the wastrel.
- The wastrel's epic revelries and excessive pleasures were finally coming to an end.
- Even his closest companions now considered the wastrel a burden and avoided him.
- The wastrel once had so much promise and potential, but now led a wretched existence.
- His existence as a wastrel finally consumed the last of the family fortune and brought shame to the whole clan.
- Eventually even debauchery lost its appeal for the aging wastrel who had nothing left to lose.
- The count disinherited his wastrel son for disgracing the family name.
- In his later years, the wastrel regretted the pleasures that had brought him only emptiness.
- Hermits even avoided interaction with the wayward wastrel who brought trouble wherever he went.
- After years of living as a wastrel, he finally realized the error of his ways.
- The king banished the wastrel prince from the kingdom for his misdeeds.
- Eventually not even the wastrel could ignore the consequences of his dissolute lifestyle.
- The wealthy young wastrel spread ruin and disorder wherever he went.
- He went from being a respected member of society to being despised as a wastrel.
- Even the red light district shunned the drug-addicted wastrel as a pariah.
- His transformation from promising scholar to drunken wastrel was a tragic fall from grace.
- Seeing her once handsome son as an aging wastrel broke her heart.
- The wastrel was left to beg for scraps and live off the charity of strangers.
- Only now, in his direst hour, did the wastrel realize the importance of family and responsibility.
- Having squandered his fortune and youth, the wastrel roamed the streets in rags.
- The prodigal son's return home as a ragged wastrel demonstrated the dangers of excess and foolishness.
- Even the meanest tavern barred the entrance to the miserable wastrel.
- The pampered wastrel finally had no choice but to face the harsh reality of his own making.
- The once elegant wastrel now wandered the city streets begging for money to buy alcohol.
- His long years of dissolute living as a wastrel had finally drained him of all vigor and spirit.