adv.
挥霍地, 不经济地

[ adv ]
to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree
<adv.all>
we are still prodigally rich compared to others

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.