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wastingly en · ADV

Etymology

From wasting + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
   • As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents. 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Scribner, published 1902, page 295:

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