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.
one who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly
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one who I·s profligate, who wastes time or resources ex·tra·va·gant·ly