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
Almudhegi also promised to cut wasteful spending, saying that $3 million was way too much to spend for a new park, Peace Park East, next to the former Dearborn City Hall building.
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Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Europe’s defense industry is fragmented and ridden with wasteful redundancy.
—Dalibor Rohac, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025
Examples of wasteful spending are legion, but here are three examples that immediately caught our attention.
—Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteful
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The makeup and musical artist has yet to reveal if someone else helped formulate the extravagant hairdo.—
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Turn up the drama by adding feathers to your outfit, or even an extravagant, dazzling head piece.—
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Of course, the same folks who said Trump’s tariffs would cause runaway inflation also said Biden’s profligate spending wouldn’t cause inflation.—
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Dembele, once a creative, two-footed but profligate winger who Luis Enrique coached into a prolific striker, has not started any of the five Club World Cup games.—
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The Barnshaws allowed for a generous 90-day close, and John had prepared everything for the young couple.—
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Loewe features a generous beach club, six cabins, three pools, an elevator, and a gym.—
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It would be accompanied by state audits into how spendthrift local governments overcharge for roads, school construction and parks.—
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Thanks to money-hungry special interests and spendthrift leaders, Californians pay among the highest corporate, sales, gas and income taxes in the nation.—
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In his own way, prodigal Harry has always been a more easy-going son than William.—
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Boston’s prodigal sons will cash in on their decades-long friendship as Miami police officers who seize millions of dollars from a stash house in their latest collaboration, Joe Carnahan’s upcoming Netflix thriller The Rip.—
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In addition to the vehicular homicide charge, Inderjit Singh is facing three counts of reckless endangerment and not having a driver's license.—
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Salmo now faces a slate of charges, including second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, riot, and obstructing and hindering a police officer.—
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One careless click can expose your information.—
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Tom’s doomed desire for Vivien—and for her vanished twenty-first-century world—shows how people in the future may yearn for the past, though the past itself proves neglectful and careless of the future.—
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The result was sky-high Democratic turnout, an electoral swing against the president’s party and a double-digit liberal victory.—
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While Vance’s critique of the Ford Foundation’s tax-exempt status was limited to its support of The Nation during his podcast appearance, other administration officials have provided clues as to how the government will conduct its scrutiny of liberal philanthropies.—
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteful. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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