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unwasteful
adjective as in economical
Strongest matches
adjective as in frugal
adjective as in provident
adjective as in sparing
adjective as in thrifty
adjective as in wary
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Example Sentences
Supplementing his first lighting collection, Solid—hollow pendants that were introduced last spring as the inaugural product from his eponymous brand—the Core series actually uses the material that is removed from the center of the Solid shades, applying an unwasteful approach to the Carrara and Nero Marquina marble used in both lines.
Viewed in this light, much that appears materially wasteful becomes economically unwasteful.
Every one knows now, however, that combustion is not a pleasant or healthy mode of obtaining light; but every one does not realize that neither is incandescence a satisfactory and unwasteful method which is likely to be practiced for more than a few decades, or perhaps a century.
There was, indeed, in the very type of her beauty a hint of a carefully calculated, unwasteful adaptation of means to ends quite in the spirit of their sparing ways.
If the workman had the full results of his labour he would in all cases be comfortably off, if he were working in an unwasteful way.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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