wastefulness
noun
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Examples of wasteful in a Sentence
a wasteful use of natural resources
a careless and wasteful person
We must eliminate wasteful expenditures.
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Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
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Devon Abelman, Allure, 23 Nov. 2024
Since then, Trump's win has thrust Musk even more into the spotlight, with the technology entrepreneur working alongside businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to create a temporary agency charged with chopping wasteful federal spending.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024
Trump has also said that the efforts of Elon and Vivek will allow his administration to dismantle the government bureaucracy and cut wasteful spending.
—Mike Patton, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
One of the world’s most consumed, most convenient, and least wasteful types of dairy, in contrast, occupies a space about the size of a beach cooler, on the bottom shelf in an unglamorous and highly missable corner of aisle six.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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Devon Abelman, Allure, 23 Nov. 2024
Since then, Trump's win has thrust Musk even more into the spotlight, with the technology entrepreneur working alongside businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to create a temporary agency charged with chopping wasteful federal spending.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024
Trump has also said that the efforts of Elon and Vivek will allow his administration to dismantle the government bureaucracy and cut wasteful spending.
—Mike Patton, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
One of the world’s most consumed, most convenient, and least wasteful types of dairy, in contrast, occupies a space about the size of a beach cooler, on the bottom shelf in an unglamorous and highly missable corner of aisle six.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasteful. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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