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wastefulnesses

wastefulnesses is the plural of wastefulness.

Meaning of wastefulness

Noun

wastefulness (countable and uncountable, plural wastefulnesses)

  1. imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
    • Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny.2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport

Questions about wastefulnesses

What is wastefulnesses the plural of?
Wastefulnesses is the plural of wastefulness.

Words near wastefulnesses in the dictionary

  1. wasted breath
  2. wasted time
  3. wasteful
  4. wastefully
  5. wastefulness
  6. wastefulnesses
  7. wastegal
  8. wastegals
  9. wastegash
  10. wastegate
  11. wastegates

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