wastrel
Good-for-nothing layabout
A wastrel is someone who wastes money, time, or resources through reckless or idle living.
The word carries moral judgment—a wastrel isn't merely poor but has squandered what they had: Her uncle was a wastrel who gambled away the family fortune.
The term sounds old-fashioned, fitting for Victorian novels about dissolute heirs.
One who wastes wealth
- prodigalRashly wasteful spender
- spenderOne who disburses money
- splurgerOne who spends extravagantly
- frittererOne who squanders
shopaholic · debtor · bankrupt · overconsumer · extravagant · profligate · dissipater · improvident
Laceless slip-on shoe
- layaboutHabitually idle person
- good-for-nothingWorthless, idle person
- ne'er-do-wellIrresponsible, idle person
- slackerIdle responsibility evader
sluggard · shirker · drone · lazybones · do-nothing · lounger · fainéant · bum
One lacking moral restraint
- rakeTined yard implement
- rouéDebauched sensualist
- debaucheeOne given to excess
- profligateRecklessly extravagant or dissolute
reprobate · degenerate · hedonist · sybarite · sensualist · debauched · dissipated · decadent
squanderer
One who wastes wealth
fritterer · shopaholic · debtor · bankrupt · overconsumer · extravagant · profligate · dissipater · improvident · unthrifty
loafer
Laceless slip-on shoe
- layaboutHabitually idle person
- good-for-nothingWorthless, idle person
- ne'er-do-wellIrresponsible, idle person
slacker · sluggard · shirker · drone · lazybones · do-nothing · lounger · fainéant · bum · malingerer
libertine
One lacking moral restraint
profligate · reprobate · degenerate · hedonist · sybarite · sensualist · debauched · dissipated · decadent · licentious
rascal
Lovable troublemaker
- knaveDishonest, unprincipled person
- miscreantEvildoer or villain
- reprobateUnprincipled person beyond reform
villain · wretch · cad · rogue · rapscallion · scalawag · no-good · blackguard · bounder · heel
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- layaboutsslacker, slackers, deadbeat, deadbeats, loafer
- old insultsknave, varlet, scoundrel, rogue, blackguard
- spendersspendthrift, overspender, big spender, free spender, reckless spender
- lazinesslaziness, sloth, idleness, apathy, lethargy
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
wastrelmiser
Stingy wealth hoarder
saver · penny-pincher · tightwad · skinflint · scrooge
wastrelhard worker
Industrious, dedicated person
go-getter · striver · provider · achiever · pillar of society