Wasteful

(adj.) laying waste; 'when wasteful war shall statues overturn'- Shakespeare .

(adj.) tending to squander and waste .

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• They were a forest people, not a steppe people, and, consequently, wasteful of wood; they were a cattle people and not a horse people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• That is a shallow and wasteful use of the resources of art. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• So began the first of the most wasteful and disastrous series of wars that has ever darkened the history of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By such practical methods Edison found that the thin, laminated cores of sheet iron gave the least heat, and had the least amount of wasteful eddy currents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Frontal attacks are even more wasteful in learning than in war. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To his own people Solomon was a wasteful and oppressive monarch, and already before his death his kingdom was splitting, visibly to all men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Nobody ever had a bigger scrap-heap than Edison; but who dare proclaim the process intrinsically wasteful if the losses occur in the initial stages, and the economies in all the later ones? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• On the contrary, all of the few types then obtainable were uneconomical, indeed wasteful, in regard to efficiency. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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