Words similar to wasteful

Example sentences for: wasteful

How can you use “wasteful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Donations feed its wasteful bureaucracy, not starving children.
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."
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."
This seems all the more wasteful, considering that the only useful information being conveyed in our example is a single vowel sound.