Wasteful

//ˈweɪstfəl//

"Wasteful" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It's wasteful to leave the land lying idle.

Taxpayers are angry about wasteful government spending.

He understood the negative outcomes of being wasteful.

That's wasteful.

Tom is wasteful.

You're wasteful.

Gosh, can you be more wasteful?

We need to cut wasteful spending.

I try not to be wasteful.

In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.

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As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.

Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]

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