waster

[ wey-ster ]

noun

1. a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.
2. a piece of ceramic ware warped, cracked, or melted during firing.
3. a spendthrift or wastrel.
4. a destroyer:

   The Vandals were wasters of cities.

5. Chiefly British. wastrel ( def 2 ).

waster

/ ˈweɪstə /

noun

1. a person or thing that wastes
2. a ne'er-do-well; wastrel
3. an article spoiled in manufacture

Word History and Origins

Origin of waster¹

1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French wastere, wastour ( -or ² ); later understood as waste + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The new big time-waster I can report is meetings about deals for which neither party wants to pay any money.

From The Daily Beast

Then caused the King his banner Land-waster to be borne aloft, and Fridrek was the man hight who bore the banner.

From Project Gutenberg

But it becomes intolerable to that waster who, though not desiring 154 genuine occupation, desires genuine sensation.

From Project Gutenberg

I have described her as a waster of food when her larva is established, according to custom, in the cell of the Mason-bee.

From Project Gutenberg

For the horses of K3 were certainly quite wonderful, and Snatty was undoubtedly a "waster."

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Inside, he found the waster interestedly poking with his stick at a roundish object on the floor.

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