wasteful 的定义
- 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.
wasteful 近义词
not economical
更多wasteful例句
- 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.