wastefully

wasteful | American Dictionary

wasteful
adjective
us/ˈweɪst·fəl/

wastefuladjective (BAD USE)

being a bad use of something valuable that you have only a limited amount of:
wasteful spending
a wasteful use of resources

wasteful | Business English

wasteful
adjective
uk /ˈweɪstfəl/us
not being careful about the amount of resources used for something:
Top business advisers have been brought in to identify areas of wasteful government spending.

Examples of wasteful

wasteful
If a government's decisions are made badly, they will be very wasteful of people's lives.
It is wasteful to throw out a repository of patterns, some of which may have been established over millennia.
Entrance to a 'community' or a 'pays' is also trying to reduce the tendency to spread wasteful and non-productive investments.
We do not want to introduce such wasteful code duplication.
Also, audio rate processing is wasteful on control rate signals that have low bandwidth.
The book is formatted in a technical writing style known as information mapping, which is certainly clear albeit very wasteful of space.
Such analysis could be helpful in decreasing the wasteful use of resources that result from establishment of plantations that are not surviving.
Parasites and parasitoids often shut down host investment in reproduction which is wasteful from the parasite's point of view.
This largest-sized 3 approach is potentially wasteful but gives flexibility and helps to avoid garbage collection.
Our critical response was to the transient and ephemeral nature of shopping which we saw as wasteful and frivolous.
The considerable costs of her earlier treatment had been futile, distressing, and wasteful.
Discovering these preferences is taken to be a wasteful and inefficient activity.
All three selection processes are also incredibly wasteful and inefficient.
We suspect that selection processes are able to produce genuine novelty and organization only because they are so incredibly wasteful.
Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would be wasteful.
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