wasteful in the PONS Dictionary

wasteful Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be wasteful of sth
wasteful expenditure

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
A /30 is always wasteful and has as its sole advantage that it behaves as expected for any other subnetwork.
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A wasteful person is destroyed by their own acts, and has many vices at once.
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Wasteful government expenditures are understood as government funding for illegal activities.
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Prior to the development of these methods, fluorination with fluorine, a dangerous oxidant, was a dangerous and wasteful process.
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Additionally, the report highlights growth itself is not the problem but rather the wasteful use of land.
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Any system that is improperly managed can be wasteful, all methods have the potential for high efficiencies under suitable conditions, appropriate irrigation timing and management.
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These types of devices ensure the system is only active during useful periods and reduces wasteful energy consumption.
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Some ethylene is over-oxidized to carbon dioxide and water, which is wasteful; early processes only gave 65% selectivity for ethylene oxide as a result.
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This is an important discipline, because heating up and cooling down are long, wasteful and damaging processes.
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He lists examples of wasteful government expenditure that he will refer to in a humorous vein in his speech if his grant is not increased.
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