a. Sc. [f. WASTER v. + -FUL.] Wasteful.

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1821.  Galt, Ayrshire Legatees, i. 5. There’s no need, for all the greatness of God’s gifts, that we should be wasterful.

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1879.  Macdonald, Sir Gibbie, lxii. Hae ye nae sang-thrift, ‘At ye scatter’t sae heigh, an’ lat it a’ drift? Wasterfu’ laverock!

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1894.  Crockett, Raiders, v. 48. You are michty wasterfu’, my laddie! What for are ye wearin’ your best claes, I wad like to ken?

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  Hence Wasterfully adv., Wasterfulness.

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1885.  ‘J. Strathesk’ (J. Tod), More Bits fr. Blinkbonny, xi. 206. She did not quite like some of Bell’s remarks about ‘wasterfu’ness’ and ‘thowlessness.’

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1891.  H. Johnston, Kilmallie, I. x. 178. The shepherd fares sumptuously and spends wasterfully.

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