How to use "wastrel" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "wastrel" in popular movie and book plots

  • The plan is to portray him as a wastrel and Uday as a good friend, so that Sirisha accepts Uday.  - Oohalu Gusagusalade
  • Lucky is attacked by Shiva Reddy, who gloats to him about his power and how Lucky's "attitude" will always keep the useless wastrel he is.  - Race Gurram
  • Arulappasamy (Vishnu) is a young man who is an alcoholic and wastrel who is a constant embarrassment to his hardworking parents.  - Neerparavai
  • Dejected, he began to feel like a wastrel amidst his family and society.  - Parichay (TV series)
  • After she marries a drunken wastrel the daughter of the manager of a Scottish concert party is thrown out by him.  - The End of the Road (1936 film)
  • A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat.  - The Lady (1925 film)
  • Additionally, the book introduces Lord John Dallington, a young wastrel aristocrat, as Lenox’s apprentice.  - The September Society
  • His uncle passes away, leaving the estate to him, as he is aware that Vimal is a wastrel and alcoholic.  - Pyaar Ka Saaya
  • He sees that Kenneth really cares for Kathleen and is not like his wastrel father.  - Smilin' Through (1932 film)
  • Shravani does not care for a wastrel like Bottu Seenu, so he poses as a software engineer named Sarath to impress her.  - King (2008 film)
  • There Bee's Uncle Charles identifies Brat as an illegitimate son of Bee's wastrel cousin Walter.  - Brat Farrar
  • Subrahmanyam (Pawan Kalyan), the youngest son of a family is a wastrel and a ladies man.  - Thammudu (film)
  • Gundabald treats her worse and worse while Hugo, his son, is a more drunken wastrel than ever.  - The Silver Wolf
  • Nicolas is a 24-year-old Londoner, a witty wastrel and the novel's archetypal anti-hero.  - The Night of Wenceslas
  • Julio, ashamed of his wastrel life, enlists in the French Army.  - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)

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