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Wasteful   /wˈeɪstfəl/   Listen
adjective
Wasteful  adj.  
1.
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2.
Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
3.
Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. (Obs.) "In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed."
Synonyms: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.






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"Wasteful" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the tropics. The black, the brown, and the yellow will have to do the work, managed by the white men. The black labour is too wasteful, however, and in time Chinese or Indian coolies will be imported. The planters are already considering the matter. I, for one, am heartily sick of ...
— Adventure • Jack London

... professes to have some Anglomania, of a sort. Why, in that free country, does one Minister, driven out by Parliament, vanish from his King's presence, and another enter, borne in by Parliament? (Montgaillard, Histoire de France, i. 410-17.) Surely not for mere change (which is ever wasteful); but that all men may have share of what is going; and so the strife of Freedom indefinitely prolong itself, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... listen he ventured to strike a match, mentally belaboring himself at the wasteful way in which he had always used his flash light which was now so much needed and out of commission. The cellar was large, running under the whole house, with heavy rafters and looming coal pits. A scurrying rat started a few lumps of coal in the slide, and a ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... method of running cattle on the open range is reckless and wasteful in the extreme and entirely inexcusable. The cattle are simply turned loose to rustle for themselves. No provision whatever is made for their welfare, except that they are given the freedom of the range to find water, ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk

... rankly and independently they are developed to full functional integrity, each in its season, if we only knew that season, the better. Premature control by higher centers, or cooerdination into higher compounds of habits and ordered serial activities, is repressive and wasteful, and the mature will of which they are components, or which must at least domesticate them, is stronger and more forcible if this serial stage ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall


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