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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Rubin’s reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR and Capital & Main has led to state laws protecting workers from lead poisoning and has exposed wasteful spending.
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Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 23 June 2024
Insurers argue that step therapy — taking drug treatment one step a time — prevents wasteful spending by directing patients to less expensive, but still effective, treatments.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The tunnel, which Nadler champions, is much more important than the wasteful Gateway passenger tunnel that gets some pols so excited.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 May 2024
But even though people working the land never doubted the value of fire in sustaining their livelihoods, elites in the New World often echoed those of the Old World who distrusted and feared fire as messy, dangerous and wasteful, a stigma of primitivism.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 23 June 2024
Insurers argue that step therapy — taking drug treatment one step a time — prevents wasteful spending by directing patients to less expensive, but still effective, treatments.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
The tunnel, which Nadler champions, is much more important than the wasteful Gateway passenger tunnel that gets some pols so excited.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 May 2024
But even though people working the land never doubted the value of fire in sustaining their livelihoods, elites in the New World often echoed those of the Old World who distrusted and feared fire as messy, dangerous and wasteful, a stigma of primitivism.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasteful. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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