[
US
/ˈweɪstɝ/
]
[ UK /wˈeɪstɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈeɪstɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
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a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to
uprooters of gravestones
a destroyer of the environment
jealousy was his undoer
How To Use waster In A Sentence
- Surfing the Internet is fun, but it's also a time waster.
- Let's invest time in young people, not just brand them as criminals and wasters.
- The biggest annoyance is that this spastic clutter of a hyperactive, ultra-communicative, check down time-waster is a first ballot Hall of Fame shoe-in. The Peyton Puzzle: Redskins Week 6 preview
- There were the usual bunch of wasters hanging round the bar.
- The high-intensity discharge lights used in industrial, retail, and institutional settings are serious energy wasters.
- Bit of a waster, but with your background that's to be expected. TANK OF SERPENTS
- This year Las Vegas entered what it calls drought alert, meaning tight restrictions on water use for residents and businesses and heavy fines for water wasters.
- The ventripotent mulatto, the great cater, worker, earner and waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart and alas! of the doubtful honesty, is a figure not yet clearly set before the world; he still awaits a sober and yet genial portrait; but with whatever art that may be touched, and whatever indulgence, it will not be the portrait of a precision. Memories and Portraits
- You know the type, those wasters that were too idle to go out and check the genny during the night and let it run out of oil or fuel. Army Rumour Service
- I think hanging round Savile Row waiting for potential clients to visit London is a big energy waster.