wastrel

Noun

wastrel (countable and uncountable, plural wastrels)

1. (countable, dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
   • And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
   • Mary’s mother—if that was her picture—may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 32
2. (countable, obsolete) A neglected child.
3. (obsolete, uncountable) Refuse; rubbish.