imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources

Inclined to waste or squander money or resources. / (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

plural of wastefulness

plural of wasteness

(obsolete) The state of being laid waste; desolation. / (now rare) The state of being uncultivated; wild, barren. / (obsolete) A wilderness.

plural of wast

Obsolete form of waist.

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.

(MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.

(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. / Barren; desert. / Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. / Superfluous; needless. / Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.