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Synonyms for wasteful
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : weyst-fuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪst fəl |
Top 10 synonyms for wasteful
Définition of wasteful
Origin :- 14c., from waste (n.) + -ful. Related: Wastefully; wastefulness.
- adj not economical
- Wasteful, too, this cooking of food for two and only one to eat it.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- In fact, her mind had never been overwhelmed by a wasteful torrent of learning.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- The openings of the war were gloomy and wasteful, without glory.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
- And of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- From our standpoint they may have been wasteful methods, but they did get results.
- Extract from : « Higher Education and Business Standards » by Willard Eugene Hotchkiss
- He finished his plate only because he had been taught that to leave food over was wasteful.
- Extract from : « Runaway » by William Morrison
- It is wasteful of ones time to frame them, and fatal to ones work to adopt them.
- Extract from : « An Ethnologist's View of History » by Daniel G. Brinton
- This period brought an increase of wealth, but it was wasteful of human life.
- Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis
- He would like to have no wasteful margins and no extreme in the size of type.
- Extract from : « The Booklover and His Books » by Harry Lyman Koopman
- Careless, slovenly and wasteful as I knew him to be, he was not mean.
- Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
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