wastrels

'wastrels' by the unemployed workmen but all the same, whenever Dauber and Botchit wanted some extra hands they never had any difficulty in obtaining them, and it often happened that those who had been loudest and bitterest in their denunciations were amongst the first to rush off eagerly to apply there for a job whenever there was a chance of getting one.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

The tramps, the occasionally employed, the unemployed -- the wastrels of the city and country.

A REVIEW 2010

Having never read any Moomin books as a kid, my only experience being with the animated cartoons (which everyone I talked to there roundly dismissed,) I was unaware of the anarchistic awesomeness that is the Moomin philosophy -- the open door for visitors, a warm welcome for wastrels like meself.

Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

Obvious common-sense, so none of the six hundred or so wastrels in the Palace of Westminster would dream of supporting the idea. on January 25, 2010 at 3: 57 pm Furor Teutonicus

Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

Having never read any Moomin books as a kid, my only experience being with the animated cartoons (which everyone I talked to there roundly dismissed,) I was unaware of the anarchistic awesomeness that is the Moomin philosophy -- the open door for visitors, a warm welcome for wastrels like meself.

Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

At the top of the new society will tower the magnate, the new feudal baron; at the bottom will be found the wastrels and the inefficients.

A REVIEW 2010

Meanwhile, the couple's sons have grown up to become wastrels, and their married daughters repeatedly miscarry.

'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy,' reviewed by Michael Dirda Michael Dirda 2010

Soon all wastrels will be concocting even more byzantine capers, still, beats “lost me giro”

The Revolving Door System. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Meanwhile, the couple's sons have grown up to become wastrels, and their married daughters repeatedly miscarry.

'The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy,' reviewed by Michael Dirda Michael Dirda 2010

And for the sake of balance, we should all think that benefit recipients are scroungers and wastrels too.

Too many of us treat young white women as trash | Barbara Ellen 2011