Words and phrases that have a meaning related to wastefulness: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
profligacy, slackness, sloppiness, inefficiency, prodigality, squandering, extravagance, squandermania, laziness, opportunism, indiscipline, petulance, selfishness, wastage, waywardness, miserliness, carelessness, frugality, ineptitude, shoddiness, mendicancy, indolence, gluttony, greediness, conspicuous consumption, rashness, miskick, leveler, thriftiness, irresponsibility, avarice, triviality, stupidity, wasting, howler, folly, parsimony, unpunctuality, indifference, obduracy, heedlessness, crassness, thoughtlessness, idleness, tightfistedness, hatful, complacency, stinginess, joylessness, perversity, frivolities, underconsumption, overindulgence, arrogance, hypocrisy, equalizer, untidiness, excesses, consumerism, frailties, industriousness, wreckless, misallocation, hubris, harrying, slothfulness, clanger, tardiness, ostentation, impudence, puniness, tidiness, ugliness, pauperisation, boastfulness, dilatoriness, goalless, decadence, unproductiveness, ineffectualness, ingratitude, impoliteness, pompousness, naivety, presumptuousness, misjudgment, meanness, fruitlessness, bureaucratism, inaptitude, ruthlessness, filthiness, showboating, backchat, mindlessness, wantonness, piggishness, insolence, shortsightedness, lethargy, indiscretion, greed, superficiality, futility, inhumanity, waste, callousness, mismanagement, arbitrariness, crudeness, crudity, immorality, imprudence, injustice, unfairness, unpopularity
More specific:
lavishness, waste of effort, waste of energy, waste of material, waste of money, waste of time
More general:
activity, improvidence
Synonyms:
Also try:dissipation, thriftlessness
— Adjectives for wastefulness: such, economic, apparent, wanton, sheer, great, inherent, enormous, extreme, much, prodigal, more...
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