FRATERNAL FILMS

PRONUNCIATION:

(WAY-struhl) 

MEANING:

noun: A good-for-nothing, wasteful person.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French from Latin vasatre (to lay waste), from vastus (desert, empty) + -rel (a diminutive or pejorative suffix). Earliest documented use: 1589.

USAGE:

“With Greece at the center of a cyclone that threatens the global economy, foreign citizens believe that their taxes have been raised to bail out the wastrel Greeks.”
Nikos Konstandaras; Orwell’s Elephant; Kathimerini (Athens, Greece); Oct 3, 2011.