| 单词 | wasteful |
| 释义 | waste·ful 1. archaic < when wasteful war shall statues overturn — Shakespeare > 2. a. < incompetent, wasteful, and corrupt … squandered money in bucketfuls — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < in the same wasteful spirit, they had cooked … three times more than we could eat — R.L.Stevenson > b. < a defective boiler that is wasteful of fuel > c. archaic < lacking the burthen of lean and wasteful learnings — Shakespeare > 3. archaic < in wilderness and wasteful deserts strayed — Edmund Spenser > • waste·ful·ly • waste·ful·ness |
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