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单词 wastefully
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wastefullyadv.

Brit. /ˈweɪstfᵿli/, /ˈweɪstfl̩i/, U.S. /ˈweɪs(t)fəli/
Etymology: < wasteful adj. + -ly suffix2.
In a wasteful manner.
1. In a manner involving waste; without regard to economy; prodigally, extravagantly, thriftlessly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adverb]
wastefully1513
riotously?1529
prodigally1530
excessively1552
wastingly1552
lavishly1571
lashingly1573
profusedly1584
lavishingly1585
overlavishly1593
profusely1595
profligately1676
dispendiously1874
wasterfully1891
extravagantly1894
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adverb] > wastefully
wastefully1513
wastingly1552
profligately1676
uneconomically1881
1513 T. Wolsey in A. Spont Lett. & Papers War France (1897) X. 167 That ye wol not out of the havons, but lye ther spendyng wastefully the King's vitaill and money.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 174 Never say, God hath given me these and these temporall things, and I have scattered them wastfully, surely he will give me no more.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iii. 29 Fortune..to her new-made Favourite, Morat, Her lavish hand is wastefully profuse.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 33/2 Formerly the workings were carried on with less system and more wastefully than now.
1885 Manch. Examiner 21 Oct. 5/6 The tin clippings are wastefully thrown into the river.
2. Destructively, ruinously. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb]
ruinouslyc1450
perniciously1533
consuminglya1542
wastefully?1567
locust-like1596
fatallya1616
extinctively1633
destructively1661
shatteringly1818
destroyingly1820
corrosively1831
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cii. 286 Ah God my God: to wastefully, Cut not my dayes: by halfe away, Where thy yeares last eternally.
1791 F. Burney Let. 31 July in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 1 Scarce any misfortune..can so wastefully desolate the very soul of my Existence as a banishment..from those I love.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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