as in extravagant
given to spending money freely or foolishly
my one wasteful child always seemed to run out of money by midweek
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Recent Examples of wasteful
Rubin’s reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR and Capital & Main has led to state laws protecting workers from lead poisoning and has exposed wasteful spending.
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Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Federal decision-makers will determine what is wasteful spending and what is worth paying for.
—Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
While the Space Force has supporters on both sides of the political aisle, the Pentagon regularly falls under bipartisan criticism for wasteful spending.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Mar. 2025
The reason Trump has acted so quickly and vigorously to eliminate wasteful spending, reduce the size of the federal workforce and deport criminal migrants is to force the courts to deal with the legal issues surrounding the president’s actions sooner rather than later.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2025
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Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Federal decision-makers will determine what is wasteful spending and what is worth paying for.
—Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
While the Space Force has supporters on both sides of the political aisle, the Pentagon regularly falls under bipartisan criticism for wasteful spending.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Mar. 2025
The reason Trump has acted so quickly and vigorously to eliminate wasteful spending, reduce the size of the federal workforce and deport criminal migrants is to force the courts to deal with the legal issues surrounding the president’s actions sooner rather than later.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteful
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Princess Diana and then Prince Charles tied the knot in an extravagant ceremony on July 29, 1981.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Abbott Elementary is experiencing quite the shake up after Ava (Janelle James) was fired last week when the district uncovered that the school had been extorting the nearby golf course for extravagant resources.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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According to his lawyers, Person’s financial troubles owed to a combination of profligate spending and giving, five-figure monthly alimony payments to an ex-wife, bad investments and the scourge of high-interest loans.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
25 Mar. 2025
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Illinois politicians, as a class, are known for many things: corruption, high taxes, profligate spending and heavy regulation.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Of all the airlines, Alaska and Hawaiian offer the most generous commitments.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
8 Apr. 2025
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Yeah, well, thank you for having me on and thank you for that really generous introduction.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2024
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Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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Newport ’65 was really a Thanksgiving dinner gone amok, in which the prodigal son and the father and several uncles and others are fighting.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2025
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After years of teasing and promising and lying, Playboi Carti, the prodigal hype-baiter, has finally returned with a new album, Music.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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This reckless governance has fueled a housing affordability crisis.—
Chris Miller,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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Now, as his reckless tariffs rattle markets and the stock market tumbles, the real cost of his policies is coming into view.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Following the accident, the driver, a 61-year-old woman, was cited with careless driving and cooperated with investigators at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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She was cited with careless driving, the sheriff’s office said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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The Supreme Court declined to lift the lower court’s order, with Barrett and another conservative, Chief Justice John Roberts, joining the three liberal justices: Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sotomayor.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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Rest assured, the play makes liberal use of the Netflix show’s signature electro-ethereal theme music.—
Sarah Bahr,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteful. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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