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Wastefully

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. [1913 Webster] -- Waste"ful*ly, adv. -- Waste"ful*ness, n.

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wastefully

adv. In a wasteful manner.

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wastefully

adv. to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others" [syn: prodigally]

Usage examples of "wastefully".

Not the KGB, with its hundreds of thousands of agents enmired in a morass of bureaucracy so deep that most of them spent their time either duplicating the efforts of others or wastefully watching one another.

But he refrained as the chance of doing serious damage to such moving targets with only a shoulder weapon seemed wastefully small.