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Example sentences for: wasteful

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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.
Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
"When I see … wasteful pork-barrel spending [while] we have 12,000 enlisted families--brave men and women--on food stamps, yeah, I get angry."
War is expensive and wasteful in terms of human life as well as economics.
Indeed it is an amusing, albeit utterly wasteful pastime to pursue the quest for Red Pants examples.