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wastefully |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a. 1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. 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. 3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.] In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed. --Spenser. Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant. -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv -- {Waste"ful*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wastefully adv : to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others" [syn: {prodigally}]
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