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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
Use wastefulness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wastefulness means imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources.
Common synonyms include waste, dissipation, thriftlessness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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