Definition of "wastrels" []

• Plural form of wastrel. (noun)

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• "'wastrels' by the unemployed workmen but all the same, whenever Dauber and Botchit wanted some extra hands they never had any difficulty in obtaining them, and it often happened that those who had been loudest and bitterest in their denunciations were amongst the first to rush off eagerly to apply there for a job whenever there was a chance of getting one."
• "Meanwhile, the couple's sons have grown up to become wastrels, and their married daughters repeatedly miscarry."
• "At the top of the new society will tower the magnate, the new feudal baron; at the bottom will be found the wastrels and the inefficients."