Wasteful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WASTEFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• tending to waste, also WASTFULL
• (of a person, action, or process) using or expending something of value carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose
• Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
• Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
• Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
• inefficient in use of time and effort and materials
• tending to squander and waste
• laying waste
• extravagant

Words related to WASTEFUL

extravagant22 infrugal12 wastefully19 wastefulness18 wasterful15 wastfull14

Words that contain WASTEFUL

wastefully19 wastefulness18 wastefulnesses20

How to use WASTEFUL in a sentence

• Here I counsel every man who must have a corner to himself to fix his study in the attic, for the only way to avoid noise without wasteful complication is to be above it.
• The black labour is too wasteful, however, and in time Chinese or Indian coolies will be imported.
• By actual test they find out all about the wasteful practices of lumbering in the woods and mills.
• We told you the cause of this difference of opinion between the two countries was the careless and wasteful way in which the hunters have killed the seals.
• Protection from fire is no less important than protection from wasteful lumbering.
• And I had an appetite that almost justified her, for the night had been a wasteful one.
• A devouring war, a dreadful famine, a plague, the most wasteful of any recorded in our history, united to consummate the ruin of Britain.
• In all respects, reliance upon such attention as this is a wasteful method, bringing bad temper and nervous wear and tear as well as imperfect results.
• The bundles have an imposing appearance, no doubt, but the useless length adds nothing to the comfort of those at table, and is a wasteful tax on the energy of the plant.
• The system hitherto pursued, moreover, was wasteful.
• The effort to make one child like another, to make him what his parents want, not what he is born to be, is one of the most cruel and wasteful in society.
• On the other hand, these food articles are all bought at small retail, the most expensive and wasteful method of purchasing.
• As heretofore carried on, this brushing is a most rudimentary and wasteful operation.
• He is wasteful though, in money matters, and too ready to give the men he knows a sovereign if they are in trouble.
• Indeed he shall lose nothing but his life Because a woman is made so evil fair, Wasteful and white and proud in harmful acts.
• He took the larger branches, on which there was sweet, tender bark, in the same way, for Paddy is never wasteful.
• Sim Bone has a roaring shoe business and pays cash for his automobiles, but he has often told me that paying good paper money for advertising would be as wasteful as eating it.
• This policy, together with the wasteful methods pursued by the hunters, caused a rapid decrease in the number of cattle.
• Though nature is wasteful of material things, there is no waste of spirit.
• Such methods are absolutely wrong, because so wasteful of energy.
• His heart was deeply stirred by the harsh contrast between the miseries of the Irish poor and the wasteful extravagance of living prevalent at Oxford.
• The undertaking of these industries was determined often by political and by selfish local interests, and their operation often was wasteful.
• That becomes wasteful the moment it leaves you with the impotent desire to hurt your adversary.
• If the habits formed are bad or wasteful ones, the individual is handicapped in his growth until new ones can be formed.
• The condition of the forests of the country and the wasteful manner in which their destruction is taking place give cause for serious apprehension.
• The process is inevitable, and in great part needful, frightfully wasteful as it seems.
• The distribution of schools and funds is chaotic and wasteful.
• Her devotion to Natalie made her, in a moment, as shrewd and calculating as she had hitherto been careless and wasteful.
• Kathleen, although she had been brought up in a considerable amount of wasteful splendor, was indifferent to what she ate.

Similar words containing WASTE without suffix ful

waste8 wasted10 wastel9 waster9 wastes9 wastels10 wasters10 wastery13 biowaste13 forwaste14 outwaste11 radwaste12 unwasted12 wastebin13 wastelot11 wastered12 wasterie11 wasteway17 biowastes14 forwasted16 forwastes15 outwasted13 outwastes12 radwastes13 wastebins14 wasteland13 wastelots12 wasteness12 wasterful15 wasteries12 wastering13 wasteways18 wasteweir15 wastefully19 wastelands14 wastepaper17 wastewater16 wasteweirs16 wastebasket20 wastenesses14 wastepapers18 wasterfully20 wastewaters17 wastebaskets21 wastefulness18 wasterfulness19 wastefulnesses20 wasterfulnesses21

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