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Squanderer vs Wastrel - What's the difference?

squanderer | wastrel |

As nouns the difference between squanderer and wastrel

is that squanderer is agent noun of squander; one who squanders while wastrel is one who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.

squanderer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Agent noun of squander; one who squanders.

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    * See also English agent nouns

    wastrel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
  • *1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
    • 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.

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