wastefulness
noun
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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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Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
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Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
This resulted in many misfit and wasteful workflows, often forcing healthcare workers to find workarounds and perform tasks that others previously did for them.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Also, both presidents’ policies included wasteful excesses and didn’t take advantage of opportunities to use federal funds more efficiently, says Clifford Winston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
Carter wrote that the VA has in effect sold off the land by allowing leaseholders to construct concrete facilities on it, then arguing that tearing those facilities down would be wasteful.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
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Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024
This resulted in many misfit and wasteful workflows, often forcing healthcare workers to find workarounds and perform tasks that others previously did for them.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Also, both presidents’ policies included wasteful excesses and didn’t take advantage of opportunities to use federal funds more efficiently, says Clifford Winston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
Carter wrote that the VA has in effect sold off the land by allowing leaseholders to construct concrete facilities on it, then arguing that tearing those facilities down would be wasteful.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasteful. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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