squandersome
adjEtymology From squander + -some.
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Characterised or marked by squandering; wasteful
- They could blast the ship to Venus in a few days — at so squandersome a fuel expenditure that ten ships couldn't carry it.1987, Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants:
- Worldwide, China is the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, releasing around twice as much carbon per unit of energy produced as even the squandersome US.2013, Jennifer Duggan, Village Magazine: China: the US circa 1970:
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- I began finding it easy to change my minor but squandersome daily ways.2013, Claudia Kolker, The Immigrant Advantage: