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wastefully

adverb as in carelessly

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Moreover, nontargeted use would wastefully divert renewable energy from its foremost task of directly displacing fossil fuels.

“We’ve got to change the way we are spending money wastefully in this country,” he said this month, “and we’re going to make sure that happens.”

After the sun goes down, the same thing happens with LED light that spills wastefully into the sky: It gets diffused to a greater extent and increases “sky glow,” the combined radiance of city lights.

Antony wastefully bent wide from distance as play became broken up by fouls and periods of treatment before Arsenal had some decent chances.

Hong Kong had been one of the world’s leading importers of tropical wood — much of which was used wastefully, as temporary reinforcements or walkways on construction projects, a practice that the government began to discourage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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