Examples of 'wasteful' in a sentence

Meaning of "wasteful"

Wasteful (adjective): Wasteful is an adjective that describes something that is using more resources than necessary or that is inefficient
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  • Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • Uninhabited, desolate.

How to use "wasteful" in a sentence

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The wasteful part is you have potential.
That would be simply wasteful and inefficient.
Wasteful consumption in the process of economic growth.
Meat is an incredibly wasteful way to produce food.
He was wasteful and loved ostentatious displays of wealth.
Taxpayers are angry about wasteful government spending.
Eliminate wasteful spending in every agency of government.
One contributing factor is wasteful consumption patterns.
The wasteful practices of the textiles industry.
From fraud from wasteful spending and.
Wasteful because costs and benefits go untallied.
That prevents the wasteful buildup of inventories.
However everything was cheap and consumption was wasteful.
It would be wasteful to just stop at one technique.
The purpose of regulation was to end wasteful competition.

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Being wasteful is not good for you or others.
I decided it would be wasteful to use this one.
Less wasteful than many other systems.
The use of force is wasteful and unnecessary.
Do not obey the order of the wasteful.
It can be wasteful to try to avoid all waste.
Is not anything more wasteful than war.
All that wasteful packaging drives me crazy.
But your methods are wasteful and violent.
It was too wasteful to spend electricity on tea production.
I think you are uniquely wasteful and destructive.
And avoid wasteful competition between locations.
Historic buildings are often wasteful in terms of energy.
To abandon it would be both criminal and wasteful.
They are a wasteful burden on the budget.
To resist would be useless and wasteful of lives.
This is both wasteful and potentially messy.
The technique was successful but very wasteful.
Lack of collaboration is wasteful because it leads to duplication.
To not use every inch of it would be wasteful.
Let us fix this wasteful registry tonight.
It seems as if building the universe is a pretty wasteful.
This has led to wasteful use of fertilizer.
Cremation of our old is indeed very wasteful.
Identify and eliminate wasteful operational practices.
Inefficient water use is also considered wasteful.
This is also wasteful of valuable signalling capacity.
Capuchin monkeys are having a rather wasteful breakfast.
This is highly wasteful of inert gas supplies.
The opposition is up my ass for wasteful spending.
This limits the wasteful consumption of electricity.
But shortcuts tend to be bad and wasteful.
So we are going to eliminate wasteful taxpayer subsidies to insurance companies.
You need to learn to be a little more wasteful.
Be considered wasteful if it achieves its contextual objective.

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