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Definition of Wasteful

Wasteful
Wasteful Waste"ful, a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. 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. 3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser. Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n.

Meaning of Wasteful from wikipedia

- 2014-07-03. Wikiquote has quotations related to Waste. Look up waste or wastefulness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Media related to Waste at Wikimedia...
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- to be viewed as a sunk cost.[citation needed] The desire not to appear wasteful—"One reason why people may wish to throw good money after bad is that to...