as in extravagant
given to spending money freely or foolishly
my one wasteful child always seemed to run out of money by midweek
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Recent Examples of wasteful
The only way through this affordability crisis is by engaging in strategic planning for our energy system, stopping wasteful utility spending and investing in efficiency and clean energy.
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Emily Scarr, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2025
The 550 community gardens that have been blessed with permanence all around the city are gloriously wasteful, crowding out towers with tulips and tomato plants.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 June 2025
Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 23 June 2025
After all, as concerns around sustainability become more commonplace, wearing an often eye-wateringly expensive gown for one day only seems wasteful in more ways than one.
—Emily Chan, Vogue, 19 June 2025
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Emily Scarr, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2025
The 550 community gardens that have been blessed with permanence all around the city are gloriously wasteful, crowding out towers with tulips and tomato plants.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 June 2025
Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 23 June 2025
After all, as concerns around sustainability become more commonplace, wearing an often eye-wateringly expensive gown for one day only seems wasteful in more ways than one.
—Emily Chan, Vogue, 19 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for wasteful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteful
Adjective
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Rosie O'Donnell is using her gift of gab to share her thoughts on billionaire Jeff Bezos' extravagant wedding to Lauren Sánchez over the weekend.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
30 June 2025
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The Amazon founder, 61, and the Emmy-winning journalist, 55, recently concluded an extravagant celebration of their love, surrounded by entertainment's biggest stars, including the Kardashian-Jenner family, Oprah Winfrey and Leonardo DiCaprio.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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European cinema helped to produce much of summer noir’s lexicon of themes, settings, and archetypes: Its fascination with the storied decadence of the leisure class—and the profligate rituals of the seasonal tourist—appeared in earlier film satires by Jean Renoir and Jacques Tati.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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Nothing better illustrates this than the profligate spending plan that Gov. Gavin Newsom got approved in June 2022.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Both the House and Senate bills would phase out the more generous deduction for many households starting at $500,000.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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As much as people talk about the U.S. and other countries becoming ever more individualistic, generations of American kin are arguably growing closer on average, researchers told me, and becoming more generous with one another.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2024
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Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Cut to Francella’s character being chased out of the village, his dreams of glory as a returning prodigal grandson seemingly dashed.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
19 June 2025
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What happens when a prodigal son falls under the influence of his older, American wife?—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.—
Anna Commander
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Two other Democrats, however, have denounced the strikes as a reckless escalation.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers,
Charlotte Observer,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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The problem isn’t that general providers are careless, but that their systems and staff simply aren’t built for these edge cases.—
Ari Raptis,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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When businesses are careless and people get hurt, those businesses should be held accountable.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
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Not surprisingly, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld the Tennessee law by a 6-3 vote, with the trio of more liberal justices dissenting.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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According to her interview, she was attacked on the Internet by 'science popularizers' who supported liberal views that led to the shutdown of Sci-Hub in Russia in 2017 for a few days.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteful. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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