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adjective

Wasteful adj.

Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

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.

Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. (Obs.) "In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed."

Synonyms: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wasteful" Quotes from Famous Books

... store, Sergeant Fones urged his stout broncho to a quicker pace than usual. The broncho was, like himself, wasteful of neither action nor affection. The Sergeant had caught him wild and independent, had brought him in, broken him, and taught him obedience. They understood each other; perhaps they loved each other. But about that even Private ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... That seems wasteful and not very hopeful. But, to be honest—and if this final piece of pen-work be not honest to its core, it certainly will prove the very acme of futility—I must add the expression of opinion that most of the important actions ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... shame, which they endeavored to disguise by the use of their tongues. The Chinese came really to afford assistance, but too late. We remained until the stockade of Sekundis was finished, while the enemy kept up a wasteful fire from the opposite side of the river, ...

— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel

... bore it like a warrior and a man; there was a reason that I should bear it: but when that reason was ended, I bethought me to get beyond the accursed sounds. It was trying to the courage and to the habits, but I had heard of these vast and naked fields, and I came hither to escape the wasteful temper of my people. Tell me, Dahcotah, ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... as the plantation shows signs of deterioration it is abandoned, and a fresh one planted out in new land, the land previously under crop with bananas being either planted in sugar-cane or allowed to run to grass. This is certainly a very wasteful method of utilising our land, and the time will come, sooner or later, when greater care will have to be given to it, and that once land has become impoverished by banana culture, it will have to be put under ...

— Fruits of Queensland • Albert Benson

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