1 And they say it's wasteful as well.
2 In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 3 Two kings' sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE QUEEN BEE 4 "Let's get out," whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half hour.
5 The growing piles of ashes and cinders in the back yards were the only evidence that the wasteful, consuming process of life went on at all.
6 This is the direct heritage of the South from the wasteful economies of the slave regime; but it was emphasized and brought to a crisis by the Emancipation of the slaves.
7 Even the coming sun made but a pale waste in the sky, like a sad sea.
8 With doubts, because the aspiration had been so laid waste in her youth.
9 He sleeps," she said; "nature exhausted by sufferance and the waste of spirits, his wearied frame embraces the first moment of temporary relaxation to sink into slumber.
10 It suits not our condition to hold with thee long communication, nor do we waste words or time upon any one.
11 But what goes in waste is saved in wages, and a lot more.
12 I don't want to waste time at Wragby, it's an awful place.
13 So I'm a bit of a waste ticket by myself.
14 I am of some use, I hope, in preventing waste and making the most of things.
15 The past has been a dreary waste with you, of youthful energies mis-spent, and such priceless treasures lavished, as the Creator bestows but once and never grants again, but, for the future, you may hope.