wasteful

Examples

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• The Republicans want YOU to tell them how to cut wasteful spending!

  Blog text (21)

• Meeting destruction with destruction is wasteful.

  Fiction book (1998)

• War being wasteful, it may be an evolutionary aberration only we and humans practice.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Driven underground, the mushroom cloud vented its wasteful rage.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Still dealing with the aftermath of the Civil War and focused on both western and industrial expansion, America was initially in no mood for involvement in what it perceived as another in a long string of wasteful European conflicts.

  Academic text (2015)

• Yes, war is incredibly wasteful and destructive, but there almost certainly would be no Silicon Valley, or the equivalent, without decades of government strategic industrial policy investment in the guise of military and space spending.

  Blog text (26)

• The rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues causes violent, wasteful death, and pits Juliet's family against Romeo's.

  Blog text (20)

• Throughout the nineteenth century, public-land policies promoted not only rapid settlement and economic use of natural resources but also widespread deforestation, massive and wasteful slaughter of buffalo and other species, and pervasive fraud in the acquisition and exploitation of public resources.

  Academic text (2006)

• I read Corsi's book: it's garbage, from an American dolchstosslegende pusher who's still butthurt that Kerry turned against an immoral, wasteful war in which he had earlier served with distinction.

  Blog text (30)

• The wasteful actions of the army caused great destruction in the countryside.

Synonyms

R

ravaging

vswasteful

7.4

Making people, places, or things suffer very severe damage

is an older, archaic word not used in modern language

How Destructive

annihilating

• NSFW

7.8

devastating

224 5.1

wasteful

• Archaic

1 9.9

destructive

243 4.2

damaging

80 3.1

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