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 wasteful ['weistful]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 浪费的, 不经济的



    wasteful
    [ adj ]
    1. tending to squander and waste

      2. <adj.all>
    2. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials

      3. <adj.all>
      a clumsy and wasteful process
      wasteful duplication of effort
      uneconomical ebb and flow of power
    3. laying waste

      4. <adj.all>
      when wasteful war shall statues overturn


    Wasteful \Waste"ful\, a.
    1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as,
    wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

    2. 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.

    3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled. [Obs.]

    In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
    --Spenser.

    Syn: Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
    ※ -- {Waste"ful*ly}, adv. --
    {Waste"ful*ness}, n.

    1. To fund outreach in isolation and hope that it alone will accomplish major improvements in the use or prenatal services is naive and wasteful." The panel concluded that the solution is action rather than more study.
    2. The subsidies were a symbol of often wasteful state support of prices.
    3. "Competition in the insurance market is wasteful and expensive," said Robert Brandon, vice president of the group. "In health care, a free market cannot work.
    4. Proxmire, who has handed out the awards almost monthly to ridicule government spending he found to be wasteful, has been elected to the National Taxpayer's Union's board of directors, and will now issue the "Fleece" under its auspices.
    5. The longer it takes for the government to cut wasteful public spending, for example, the longer it will be before funds are available to invest in education and infrastructure.
    6. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, called the continued spending for the MX missile program "wasteful" and unnecessary.
    7. Graham's probe also comes as Kemp has voiced anger at Congress for appropriating millions of dollars to specific HUD projects that the department's own staff says is unnecessary or wasteful.
    8. Ethics aside, the frequent-flier programs encourage unnecessary trips and wasteful routing.
    9. But the agency said that to avoid the appearance of wasteful work, the clerical tasks will now be handled by personnel from the American Association of Retired Persons.
    10. The reason: to gauge the extent of congressional demands on the executive branch, to determine which demands result in better-managed federal programs and which impede effective execution of the law and encourage wasteful spending.
    11. The organization was seen as biased against the United States, bureaucratically bloated and wasteful.
    12. In time, that would ease the supply problem. A faster introduction of metering might have the same effect on consumption. Water company chairmen have long maintained that their biggest problem is consumers' wasteful attitude to the resource.
    13. Rep. John Bryant is seeking to severely restrict the practice of clear-cutting in national forests, calling the timber harvesting method irresponsible and wasteful.
    14. But the board believes holding such ballots inside the company can open them up to undue employer pressure. Mr Gould has also speeded procedures to cut the back-log of cases and prevent wasteful litigation.
    15. (M)any of the problems caused by wasteful energy consumption, ranging from smog to excessive reliance on foreign suppliers, need to be addressed even if energy remains cheap and plentiful.
    16. Tied agents and direct sales forces surely bear the lion's share of responsibility for the present wasteful level of surrenders of endowment policies. But would it be to the disadvantage of independents to have to reveal their commission?
    17. We need a strong defense, but we must control wasteful spending.
    18. Defense lawyers generally agree incarceration is necessary in some white-collar cases, but say it's counterproductive and wasteful to send nonviolent felons into a prison system already overflowing with hard criminals.
    19. Income from oil sales has given rise in many Arab countries to a wasteful public sector and a runaway military-industrial complex.
    20. Crime originating from economically weak east European states is a new and dangerous phenomenon. Do you fear the possibility of wasteful duplication with national agencies and, if so, how can this be avoided?
    21. In a speech before the National Urban League in Detroit, Dukakis accused the Reagan administration of having "cramped ideals and limited ambitions" and spending huge amounts of money on wasteful projects rather than helping blacks and poor people.
    22. Lombard League newspapers denounce Rome for, they say, using money from the north for wasteful development programs in the south.
    23. In the letter, which was included in the SEC filing, Mr. Kennedy called the proposed offering "unnecessary, wasteful and injurious to the current owners."
    24. The report adds that last year more than one million local enterprises, mostly on the farms, had to shut down for lack of credit and raw materials, which had been diverted to big wasteful state enterprises.
    25. "Exceptional teachers, who perhaps understand and deplore this dilemma more than their peers, want to break the shackles that bind them to wasteful modes of instruction," the poll said in its summary.
    26. And since many of our privatization efforts are accompanied by an end to wasteful subsidies, in the long run spending goes down as well.
    27. Attorneys prepared an emergency appeal Wednesday to keep thrift regulators from seeking a $30.8 million bond from ousted CenTrust Chairman David Paul, a symbol of wasteful opulence in the savings & loan crisis.
    28. Since then EFA has evolved into a symbol for many Germans of wasteful Cold War spending. Recently, the climate appears to have become even more hostile to the project.
    29. A first priority for the European Community this year must be the offer of real change to its creaking, wasteful Common Agricultural Policy of farm price supports.
    30. Because this oil spill is going unnoticed by the media, and therefore by the public, the politicians responsible for it continue their wasteful ways with impunity.
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