wasteful
IPA: wˈeɪstfʌɫ
adjective
- Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
- (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
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Examples of "wasteful" in Sentences
- The format is wasteful of paper's space.
- Where they differ is on what they define as wasteful spending.
- Republicans are seizing on what they characterize as wasteful stimulus spending.
- Plus, Republican leaders railing against what they call the wasteful budget bill.
- That he is -- has had a agreement with climate change and what he calls wasteful spending.
- McCain says he can achieve the goal by cutting what he calls wasteful government spending.
- Union representatives say the city has yet to do enough to cut what they call wasteful contracts with vendors and find other efficiencies.
- President Obama also faces other challenges from House Republicans, led by the incoming House Speaker John Boehner, who have vowed to cut what they call wasteful government spending.
- But one of the things that John McCain did here at the town hall meeting was really rail against what he thinks is a big problem for Republicans, at least the genesis of a problem for Republicans, and that is what he calls wasteful spending in Washington.
- TODD (voice-over): At the core of what Republicans say is wrong with the president's bill -- what they call wasteful spending, like $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts or $335 million for education programs to prevent HIV/AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases.
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