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
Lower taxes, less regulation, eliminating bureaucracy and wasteful spending allows business to thrive.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Congress has already appropriated it, but there remains broad approval for most of the administration’s efforts to root out wasteful spending.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Mar. 2025
And, in doing so, AOMs will seriously assist combatting out-of-control and wasteful government healthcare spending down the road.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Cutting wasteful spending has also gained significant favor with a broad swath of Americans, even if the methods that Elon Musk’s DOGE employs are controversial, at best.
—David Goldman, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Congress has already appropriated it, but there remains broad approval for most of the administration’s efforts to root out wasteful spending.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Mar. 2025
And, in doing so, AOMs will seriously assist combatting out-of-control and wasteful government healthcare spending down the road.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Cutting wasteful spending has also gained significant favor with a broad swath of Americans, even if the methods that Elon Musk’s DOGE employs are controversial, at best.
—David Goldman, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteful
Adjective
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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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But now, their youngest is being encouraged by her fiancé's parents to have an extravagant wedding.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 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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Put another way, in this view, well-off people who choose to live in profligate spending states shouldn’t get to deduct state and local taxes on their federal returns, saving large amounts of money ahead of each April 15.—
David Mark,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Wout Faes was generous enough to give Hojlund an extra beat to run the ball into the penalty area unpressured, and United’s No 9 accepted the gift with a shot low and hard across Mads Hermansen into the far corner.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
17 Mar. 2025
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Her passion for theatre is matched by her kind and generous spirit, creating an environment where her peers feel encouraged and supported.—
Heide Janssen,
Orange County Register,
16 Mar. 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
Adjective
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While portrayed by the Trump administration as hardened criminals, the Venezuelans deported from the United States were welcomed back with open arms as prodigal sons and daughters — ironically, by the man in charge of the repressive apparatus that initially forced many of them to flee.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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Fast-forward to Spencer introducing his fists to a henchman's face, and his prodigal son arc is put on hold yet again.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Last year’s Reds dealt with injuries, bad defense, and aggressive base running that sometimes bordered on reckless, among other issues.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Marcantonio faces four counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and a single count each of reckless driving, failure to maintain the proper lane and first-degree manslaughter.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Heat committed 14 turnovers, several of them particularly careless, and shot just 9 for 37 (24.3 percent) on threes.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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Nests are usually placed on a horizontal conifer branch less than 10 feet above the ground, which makes sense, given the careless, rickety appearance of their design.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Teenagers in our study who disapproved of Trump were more likely to be female and Latino, Black or Asian, to have politically liberal parents, and to have parents or grandparents who were immigrants.—
Laura Wray-Lake,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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Asheville, where the forum was held, is liberal, but the district overall is so Republican that the national Democratic Party did little to help impressive nominees in the last three elections.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Wasteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteful. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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