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Another word for wastefulness

noun

Excessive or imprudent expenditure:

extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, squander, waste. See careful, save

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In Poland also his thrift and businesslike qualities speedily remedied the abuses caused by the 'wastefulness of his predecessor Alexander.
As for the second, the elements of savage voracity and wastefulness, of uncertainty as to cubical contents on uneven surface, and of the number of mouths to fill, make it hazardous to construct a chronological table on a shell-heap. Hudson's village sites in Patagonia contain pottery, and that brings them all into the territory of Indian archaeology.
They cited the old book as the source of the information.

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