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Example sentences for: wasteful

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Governments may be wasteful in managing money, but the only evidence GS provides is in the story of Louis XV, who, when accused of spending too much, said, "After me, the deluge."
If the fixture was designed to hold ten shirts of a particular color and size, for instance, it is both wasteful of space and visually unappealing to put only three shirts out—even if an economic analysis recommends the lower quantity.
Those events, too, were derided in advance as wasteful and stupid.
In London Friday, the Guardian blamed Hurricane Floyd on America's "massive, wasteful consumption of a disproportionate share of the planet's resources."
3) Many analysts regard Oracle's wager on network computers (an alternative to PCs) as a wasteful distraction.