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comparative more wasteful, superlative most wasteful
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources. quotations examples
As a narrative, competition of the type seen between the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) was seen as wasteful, with duplicate routes reflecting an unnecessary use of resources.
2023 March 8, 'Industry Insider', “The Beeching legacy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 68
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate. quotations
Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 17, page 482