Crossword-Solution: WASTEFUL 8 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Wasteful a. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Wasteful a. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which
is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a
wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.
Wasteful a. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

We have 31 clues for the answer “WASTEFUL”

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tending to squander and waste 1 answer
Unfrugal 1 answer
UNECONOMIC 1 answer
Opposite of thrifty 1 answer
Not thrifty 1 answer
Generous to a fault 1 answer
uneconomical 2 answers
unthrifty 3 answers
Shiftless 8 answers
uncultivable 19 answers
unplanted 20 answers
Unbeneficial 20 answers
unprogressive 21 answers
seedless 21 answers
Unforthcoming 21 answers
unserviceable 23 answers
unrewarded 23 answers
profitless 24 answers
Unrewarding. 25 answers
Valueless 32 answers
Immoderate 35 answers
Unprofitable. 35 answers
unschooled 40 answers
Wasteland 42 answers
Prodigal 44 answers
improvident 49 answers
uneducated 59 answers
Extravagant 60 answers
Unproductive 66 answers
Lavish 67 answers
Wasted 71 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WASTEFUL (5)

This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may {hog} the processor.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Yet, as being ofttimes noxious where they light 460 On man, beast, plant, wasteful and turbulent, Like turbulencies in the affairs of men, Over whose heads they roar, and seem to point, They oft fore-signify and threaten ill.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
She was possessed by some feverish excitement which made her distressingly loud when she laughed, and sinfully wasteful and capricious in what she ate and drank at lunch.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
She has been attending a fashionable girls' school where, he says, they have filled her head with absurd, wasteful, snobbish notions.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
They thought it a violation of anti-slavery principles—conceding a right of property in man—and a wasteful expenditure of money.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Quotes with WASTEFUL (3)

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
Bill Watterson
What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua... that's the only name I can think of for it... like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer. The Chautauquas were pushed aside by faster-paced radio, movies and TV, and it seems to me the change was not en…
Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Toni Morrison
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1968–2014).