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Viewed in this light, much that appears materially wasteful becomes economically unwasteful.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the workman had the full results of his labour he would in all cases be comfortably off, if he were working in an unwasteful way.

From Signs of Change by Morris, William

There was, indeed, in the very type of her beauty a hint of a carefully calculated, unwasteful adaptation of means to ends quite in the spirit of their sparing ways.

From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson