1. wasteful

adjective. ['ˈweɪstfəl'] inefficient in use of time and effort and materials.

Rhymes with Wasteful

• distasteful
• tasteful

How do you pronounce wasteful?

Pronounce wasteful as ˈweɪstfəl.

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Sentences with wasteful

1. Adjective
However, they also have a taste for the finer things in life which could lead to wasteful spending.

Quotes about wasteful

1. Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
- Gary Ryan Blair

2. Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

2. wasteful

adjective. ['ˈweɪstfəl'] laying waste.

3. wasteful

adjective. ['ˈweɪstfəl'] tending to squander and waste.