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wasteful

adj. tending to squander and waste

wasteful

adj. causing unnecessary consumption: "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"

wasteful

adj. laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare

uneconomical, wasteful

adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"

immoderate

adj. beyond reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending"

exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive

adj. tending to exploit or make use of

annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering

adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"

blasting, ruinous

adj. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"

corrosive

adj. spitefully sarcastic; "corrosive cristism"

crushing, devastating

adj. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

soul-destroying

adj. destructive to the spirit or soul; "soul-destroying labor"

damaging, negative

adj. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"

erosive

adj. wearing away by friction; "the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline"

obliterating, obscurant

adj. making undecipherable or imperceptible: "obliterating mists"; "an obscurant bank of clouds"

ravaging

adj. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"

slow

adj. (inefficient)

thrifty

adj. careful and diligent in the use of resources

economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting

adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

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