wastefulness
noun
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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The frustration helped spawn the fruitless and wasteful 2021 attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom — which cost taxpayers more than $200 million — and fuels the perennial fantasy of a breakaway rural state called Jefferson.
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Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
Some onlookers have criticized the initiative as costly and wasteful.
—Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and fringe political figures have argued that the policies that helped create the fastest increase in renewable electricity generation in U.S. history are wasteful and unnecessary, even as oil and gas drillers continue to qualify for their own federal incentives.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Because the reality is there are over 100 million sharks being killed every year for wasteful things like shark finning for shark and soup, shark fishing, shark culling.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 30 June 2025
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Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 3 July 2025
Some onlookers have criticized the initiative as costly and wasteful.
—Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and fringe political figures have argued that the policies that helped create the fastest increase in renewable electricity generation in U.S. history are wasteful and unnecessary, even as oil and gas drillers continue to qualify for their own federal incentives.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Because the reality is there are over 100 million sharks being killed every year for wasteful things like shark finning for shark and soup, shark fishing, shark culling.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 30 June 2025
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasteful. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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