wastefully
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4.0
- adverb
- /ˈweɪstfəlɪ/
:
despilfarradoramente
- If you're going to be able to make health care work better, you've got to be able to make that system work better for people, more efficiently and less wastefully, less harmfully, and with much better teamwork.
- wastefully spent
- dollars wastefully
Examples
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A 1970 issue of Fortune magazine aptly stated, "Much of U.S. medical care, particularly the everyday business of preventing and treating routine illness... is inferior in quality, wastefully dispensed, and inequitably financed..."
Academic text (2000) -
Fear will gain credibility because it won't be applied wastefully.
Blog text (4) -
The money is being spent wastefully, but not simply given away.
Blog text (12) -
The money is both being given away and spent wastefully.
Blog text (12) -
The humans have wastefully depleted the planet's natural resources.
Fiction book (2001) -
When the organization or individuals in it act illegally, inefficiently, or wastefully, however, employees are expected to be loyal and not speak out.
Academic text (1997) -
Oh, well, I suppose you'd rather be the person going to a restaurant, eating only half an eclair, and then, wastefully throwing the rest away.
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Literacy functions historically to permit experience, insight, and invention to accumulate, so that the beneficiaries of the archive do not have to labor wastefully to create again what their precursors have already created.
Academic text (1996) -
She now cooked regular meals and packed lunches (in addition to her cleaning duties), instead of allowing her family to wastefully pay for someone else's labor to cook meals, and it "costs less than a third of what it would otherwise" (28).
Academic text (2014) -
Many companies wastefully spend their budgets on unnecessary items instead of investing in growth.
Synonyms
48
3.7
Without a good reason
4
3.5
In a way that does not help or make any difference
3
4.8
In a way that wastes time or money
1
6.7
In a way that fails to get useful results
To spend money wastefully and not save
To spend or give a lot in a very wasteful way
In a way that wastes money or resources
Antonyms
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wastefully comes from the simple word waste, which originally meant 'to destroy' or land left 'empty', as in the word wasteland. So to do something wastefully is to use or lose things carelessly, like destroying or emptying them.