Read full poem →The shepherd climbs the cliff, and sees from far
The wasteful ravage of the wat'ry war.]
Dictionary Entry
Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
In a Sentence
“She was criticized for her wasteful spending on unnecessary gadgets.”
Origin
From Middle English wasteful, from waste + -ful, meaning ‘full of waste’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “wasteful”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A thicket hung with masks of mockery
And watered with the wasteful warmth of tears?
Read full poem →this complaint. It was indeed, an expensive
war. War is the most wasteful thing in the
world. But is money to be measured against the
Read full poem →A shepheard's boy, (no better do him call,)
When winter's wasteful spite was almost spent,
All in a sunshine day, as did befall,
Read full poem →HOB. Colin, to hear thy rhymes and roundelays,
Which thou wert wont on wasteful hills to sing,
I more delight than lark in summer days,
Read full poem →Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
Read full poem →Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,