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waste·ful

 (wāst′fəl)
adj.
Marked by or inclined to waste; extravagant.

waste′ful·ly adv.
waste′ful·ness n.
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Adv.1.wastefully - to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others"
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Translations
بِتَبْذير، بِمضْيَعَه
á eyîslusaman hátt
isaraf ederek

wastefully

[ˈweɪstfəlɪ] ADV [use] → antieconómicamente, excesivamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wastefully

[ˈweɪstfʊli] adv
to use sth wastefully → gaspiller qchwaste ground nterrain m vague
a piece of waste ground → un terrain vague
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wastefully

advverschwenderisch; organizedunwirtschaftlich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wastefully

[ˈweɪstfəlɪ] adv to spend wastefullyfare degli sprechi nello spendere
to use sth wastefully → non utilizzare al meglio qc
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

waste

(weist) verb
to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way. You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.
noun
1. material which is or has been made useless. industrial waste from the factories; (also adjective) waste material.
2. (the) act of wasting. That was a waste of an opportunity.
3. a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc. the Arctic wastes.
ˈwastage (-tidʒ) noun
loss by wasting; the amount wasted. Of the total amount, roughly 20% was wastage.
ˈwasteful adjective
involving or causing waste. Throwing away that bread is wasteful.
ˈwastefully adverb
ˈwastefulness noun
waste paper
paper which is thrown away as not being useful. Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper.
wastepaper basket (ˈweispeipə)
a basket or other (small) container for waste paper. Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.
waste pipe (ˈweispaip)
a pipe to carry off waste material, or water from a sink etc. The kitchen waste pipe is blocked.
waste away
to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc. He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease.
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Either I must throw overboard all my old values of money and look upon it as something to be flung about wastefully, or I must throw overboard my comradeship with these men whose peculiar quirks made them like strong drink.
She appeared never to have thought of that; she had been living wastefully for years, in a house five times too big for her, on a footing that I could explain only by the presumption that, excessive as it was, the space she enjoyed cost her next to nothing and that small as were her revenues they left her, for Venice, an appreciable margin.
Green then whistled a rising shot past Addai's left post as the Bucks kept wastefully handing possession to the home side.
Mohamadou Sumareh went close to levelling for Malaysia in the 11th minute with a clever back-heel which went narrowly wide, while Do Hung Dung should have done better for the hosts in the 33rd minute after he received the ball unmarked on the edge of the box but shot wastefully wide.
"The mayor doesn't like to address the fact that his administration has wastefully spent millions of dollars that poured into the city during the nation's 14year payment period to the state."
Although gasping for every penny, the rulers of Pakistan have wastefully amassed an unbelievable number of government vehicles - over 22,000 of them only in the province of Sindh.
Former Gateshead striker Liam Henderson shot wastefully over at the other end after good build-up play by the Highwaymen.
Ritter was notoriously anti-British, as Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma demonstrates with original archival material--yet additional archival refutes the accusation that Stilwell's hatred of the British led him to wastefully sacrifice the lives of his men during the 1944 North Burma Campaign.
As a result, many providers were accused of wastefully overinvesting in capital, at the public's expense.
Charlie Walker wastefully blasted a good chance wide from ten yards for the home side before Nathan Vaughan denied the forward with a smart save.
Lukaku curled a shot wide after just 90 seconds, had a half-volley cleared off the line by Alex Lawless, fired wastefully wide at the near-post and poked one past goalkeeper Artur Krysiak but off the end of the pitch in the first half, and did not get any closer after the break.
Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye missed a good chance on the hour, blazing a shot wastefully over the bar after being teed up by Spurs old boy Andros Townsend.