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wasteful

/weyst-fuhl/US // ˈweɪst fəl //UK // (ˈweɪstfʊl) //

侈靡,浪费,浪费的,侈靡的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
    • : grossly extravagant; prodigal: a wasteful party.
    • : devastating or destructive: wasteful war.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.not economical

Examples

  • It’s extremely time-consuming, wasteful in energy, and a head-scratcher in that it doesn’t match our human experience of learning.

  • Despite this notoriety, these materials aren’t necessarily as wasteful as many consumers may think.

  • The team argues that traditional barrel aging is a wasteful process, where you lose 20 percent of the product through evaporation, and one that is hard to replicate.

  • It will seem wasteful and barbaric compared to growing exactly the cuts of meat that we want, with no death or pollution involved.

  • The plastics industry is extraordinarily wastefulThe report summarizes four aspects of the industry’s wasteful ways.

  • Two-thirds agree that “government is usually inefficient and wasteful.”

  • Though with budget cuts now looming, Congress is trying to gut some of those benefits while wasteful programs go untouched.

  • That said, he has motioned that he would not be against cutting wasteful spending from the defense budget.

  • The most interesting part of eccentricity may be just how wasteful it usually is.

  • If those 3s turn into 2's and 1's, then it will be clear that this whole program was a giant, wasteful mess.

  • Peace, also—or peace under the old conditions of industry—is infinitely wasteful of human energy.

  • Occasionally Malcolm shot a peacock, but shooting birds with a revolver is a difficult sport and wasteful of ammunition.

  • These Indians were so fierce, and warlike, and wasteful, they went about destroying everything.

  • At the foot of the lake, a mass of ice was piled high over the shore, where lived these wasteful Indians.

  • You that are so wasteful of your buttons,” said I, “I can hardly think you would be a good judge of business.