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Wastefulness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources countable, uncountable

    "Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny."

  2. 2
    useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly wordnet
  3. 3
    the trait of wasting resources wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English wastfulnes; equivalent to wasteful + -ness.

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