Words similar to waste-away

Example sentences for: waste-away

How can you use “waste-away” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Putting outright, downright grammatical solecisms aside, it would be pertinent to reiterate my own attitude toward usage: as a linguist, I regard usage clinically and would no more criticize a writer or a speaker of any kind of English for “mistakes” than a doctor would criticize a patient for contracting appendicitis or the Malay waste-away; on the other hand, as a writer (albeit a poor one), I attend to matters of style (which includes usage and grammar, of course), not only in others' writing but my own.
That is, the doctor is not supposed to express his loathing or disgust at the manifestations of some horrible affliction, nor is it deemed proper for him to assume an accusatory posture reflected in expressions like, What a fool you are for having exposed yourself to the Malay waste-away !