wastefully

Adverb

Meaning

to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree

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Synonyms

prodigally large waste blow consuming lavish comfortably duplication wildly richly wasteful liberally lavishly elegantly carelessly

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Antonyms

poorly carefully deliberately cheap efficiently economically

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Phrases with the word

be wastefully extravagant with

Examples

we are still prodigally rich compared to others Source: Internet

Arsenal should have been ahead when David Luiz picked out Aubameyang, who wastefully shot straight at Ederson with only the keeper to beat. Source: Internet

"But if you convert it directly into a liquid you can move it and use it instead of flaring it wastefully. Source: Internet

He believed coal “was used wastefully and extravagantly in all its applications”, and as early as 1863 he predicted Britain would cease to use coal within two centuries. Source: Internet

In the second half Rodriguez brought a good save from Dean Henderson, but McNeil shot wastefully wide from the rebound with just the keeper to beat. Source: Internet

Stating that coal "was used wastefully and extravagantly in all its applications", he predicted in 1863 that England would cease to produce coal within two centuries. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

wasted labor wasted time wasteful wastefulness wastegal wastegate