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wasteful

/ˈweɪstfəl/ adjective B1
  1. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
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In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 39 · B2
To him, throwing something away because it had stopped working was not merely wasteful but faintly embarrassing, an admission that you had given up without a fight.
The Lost Art of Repair, p. 1 · C2

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