Wasteful

Energy monitoring features let you use the device’s mobile app to track power consumption over time, giving you a better argument to use against your wasteful, wasteful children who never turn off the TV.

The Mohists polemicized against elaborate funeral ceremonies and other wasteful rituals, and called for austerity in life and in governance, but did not deem spiritual sacrifices wasteful.

And people say it’s the cost of Christmas that’s so wasteful!

Antonio Candreva snatched a last-gasp 1-1 draw for Salernitana against wasteful Inter Milan on Friday with a bizarre goal which inched his team closer to Serie A safety.

Ashton Secondary’s project, Ashton Sewing Solutions, created The Good Pad, a washable and environmentally friendly skincare pad, aimed at replacing wasteful, single-use ones.

At the Agilobi Road inauguration, Governor Diri took a swipe at his opponents who wasted state resources during their five years in office describing it as wasteful.

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) today introduced legislation to curb wasteful spending at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Column: This water project is expensive, wasteful and ecologically damaging.

Creeping desertification caused by climate change, wasteful traditional irrigation practices and diversion of water upstream are the culprits.

Dryer sheets aren’t just a waste of money, they’re wasteful, too.

Hart said there aren’t any programs he deems as wasteful spending.

He, however, did not feel completely wasteful because it was an opportunity for him to familiarise himself with the school ahead of the reporting date on Monday, February 27.

He said it also would not have exempted Eskom from taking appropriate steps to prevent irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, including appropriate criminal or disciplinary steps because of any losses incurred to date.

In a founding affidavit, Letsoalo said the fund could not pay the hospital pending the finalisation of the SIU investigation as doing so might be deemed irregular or wasteful expenditure.

It can also be extremely wasteful, especially if you leave a sprinkler on for hours on end, only reaching the same patch of grass.

It does this by automatically ceasing the process if the device is dislodged and makes for less wasteful energy transfer while the process is taking place.

It is distressing to see the amount of unnecessary and wasteful all-night lighting already coming into use, for example on the walk to Tathra Headland between the Tathra Hotel and the Wharf.

It is high time for our country to stand up against this unmeaningful and wasteful expenditure.

It needs to be clarified here that belt-tightening, cutting wasteful expenditure, or reducing inefficient expenditure is not austerity in the sense of economics literature, by which it means cutting down development expenditure.

It’s just really wasteful when there’s so many homeless people in this country, and I’m just not really like that,” she said.