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karmic-serenity.livejournal.com2009-02-09 07:47 pm
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wastrel \WAY-struhl\, noun:
1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift.
2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.
Wastrel is from waste + -rel (as in scoundrel).
Horace Liveright, the book publisher of the 1920's, is usually recalled in literary memoirs as a charming wastrel, a gambler who always saw a winning bet as a chance to raise his stake in whatever game he was losing at.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Disastrous Life of a Pioneer in Hype", New York Times, July 27, 1995
1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift.
2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.
Wastrel is from waste + -rel (as in scoundrel).
Horace Liveright, the book publisher of the 1920's, is usually recalled in literary memoirs as a charming wastrel, a gambler who always saw a winning bet as a chance to raise his stake in whatever game he was losing at.
-- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Disastrous Life of a Pioneer in Hype", New York Times, July 27, 1995