as in extravagant
given to spending money freely or foolishly
my one wasteful child always seemed to run out of money by midweek
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Recent Examples of wasteful
The SpaceX founder is now an adviser to the president and heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which aims to cut down on what the administration views as wasteful spending in the federal government.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately for Ratcliffe and INEOS, there have been few signs in their first year that the club’s wasteful transfer dealings will end any time soon.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025
High-profile eliminations of wasteful spending (some real, others not) won’t make a dent in federal spending.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Unfortunately for Ratcliffe and INEOS, there have been few signs in their first year that the club’s wasteful transfer dealings will end any time soon.
—Chris Weatherspoon, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
Is its packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025
High-profile eliminations of wasteful spending (some real, others not) won’t make a dent in federal spending.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteful
Adjective
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Princess Diana and then Prince Charles tied the knot in an extravagant ceremony on July 29, 1981.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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But now, their youngest is being encouraged by her fiancé's parents to have an extravagant wedding.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Illinois politicians, as a class, are known for many things: corruption, high taxes, profligate spending and heavy regulation.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Put another way, in this view, well-off people who choose to live in profligate spending states shouldn’t get to deduct state and local taxes on their federal returns, saving large amounts of money ahead of each April 15.—
David Mark,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
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Doing this to one of our closest allies, one always generous in aiding our defense and that sacrificed lives fighting for us, is outrageous.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025
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Laigueglia Parts of the Riviera di Ponente, or Western Riviera, offer sandy beaches, one of the many attractions of the town of Laigueglia, whose seafront extends for a generous three kilometers.—
Catherine Sabino,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2024
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Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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Newport ’65 was really a Thanksgiving dinner gone amok, in which the prodigal son and the father and several uncles and others are fighting.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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After years of teasing and promising and lying, Playboi Carti, the prodigal hype-baiter, has finally returned with a new album, Music.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Democrats slammed the Signal chat as a reckless violation of secrecy that could have put service members in harm’s way.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Marcantonio faces four counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and a single count each of reckless driving, failure to maintain the proper lane and first-degree manslaughter.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The team held a multiple-point lead with seconds to go, but careless defense and turnovers cost them.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Top-four defencemen Darnell Nurse and Jake Walman were also careless with the puck at times.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Kaul’s case was initially assigned to Judge Susan Crawford, Schimel’s liberal opponent in the high-stakes Supreme Court election.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Mar. 2025
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The current election pits former Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel, now a circuit court judge in conservative-leaning Waukesha County, against Susan Crawford, a judge in Dane County, the state’s liberal bastion.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteful. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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