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adj.not economical

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It’s extremely time-consuming, wasteful in energy, and a head-scratcher in that it doesn’t match our human experience of learning.

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Despite this notoriety, these materials aren’t necessarily as wasteful as many consumers may think.

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The team argues that traditional barrel aging is a wasteful process, where you lose 20 percent of the product through evaporation, and one that is hard to replicate.

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It will seem wasteful and barbaric compared to growing exactly the cuts of meat that we want, with no death or pollution involved.

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The plastics industry is extraordinarily wastefulThe report summarizes four aspects of the industry’s wasteful ways.

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Peace, also—or peace under the old conditions of industry—is infinitely wasteful of human energy.

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Occasionally Malcolm shot a peacock, but shooting birds with a revolver is a difficult sport and wasteful of ammunition.

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These Indians were so fierce, and warlike, and wasteful, they went about destroying everything.

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At the foot of the lake, a mass of ice was piled high over the shore, where lived these wasteful Indians.

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You that are so wasteful of your buttons,” said I, “I can hardly think you would be a good judge of business.

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