wastrel

“wastrel" with a rifle, for his shy eyes gave the lie to his oily tongue.”

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front

“There might be problems with the fileshare site or your ability to access it, or with servers and attachment sizes, or with wastrel writers making cock-ups.”

Archive 2010-02-01

“The play follows Hester's affair with former RAF pilot Freddie Page, who turns out to be a callow wastrel.”

The Guardian: This week's new theatre

“Mr. May interprets the parable of the Prodigal Son, for example, as not about divine forgiveness but about a father who happens to prefer his wastrel offspring to his dutiful brother.”

The Wall Street Journal: Isn't Love Divine

“A shrewd ruler, not a wastrel, though she worked her bed as no one before or since.”

The Wall Street Journal: In All Her Infinite Variety

“Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted.”

The Wall Street Journal: In All Her Infinite Variety

“If anything is clear after last week's meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy it is that the Lady is not for turning from her mission to prevent the wastrel nations of the euro zone from feasting on the productivity and hard work of her voters.”

The Wall Street Journal: Global Markets Move, but Merkel Won't

“As almost every Christian knows, the story is about a father who forgives his wastrel son, a young man who has not only spent all that he has on fast living, but also has rejected the father.”

The Huffington Post: Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Rest In Peace Christopher Hitchens

“Put that notion on the table today and we could probably cut a half-trillion AT LEAST from that massive wastrel.”

Think Progress » Senate Budget Committee Proposes Slashing State And Foreign Aid Budgets While Increasing Pentagon Funding