wasteful (adj.)
- baneful
- calamitous
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- consuming
- consumptive
- deadly
- destroying
- destructive
- devastating
- disastrous
- extravagant
- fatal
- fateful
- incontinent
- intemperate
- internecine
- lavish
- nihilistic
- overgenerous
- pound-foolish
- prodigal
- profligate
- profuse
- ravaging
- ruinous
- self-destructive
- spendthrift
- subversive
- suicidal
- withering
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
