unwastefully

unwastefully

English

Etymology

un- +‎ wastefully

Adverb

unwastefully (comparative more unwastefully, superlative most unwastefully)

1. Not wastefully, in a way that avoids waste.
   • 1661, Edward Hyde and Harbottle Grimston, A Collection of […] Orders Heretofore Used in Chancery with […] Alterations and Additions Thereunto, London: Henry Chase, “Examination of Witnesses,” p. 34,

     That all Copies of Bills, Answers, Depositions, or other Record, or thing whatsoever belonging to the Six Clerks to Copy, shall contain fifteen lines at the least in every sheet of paper, written fairly, and orderly, and unwastefully […]

   • 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] ‎, London: Reeves and Turner, page 115:

     […] a system which […] sees how labour can be freed from its present fetters, and organized unwastefully, so as to produce the greatest possible amount of wealth for the community and for every member of it […]

   • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Five, 2,

     The phone’s light dimmed unwastefully and went out: he lit it again, ran it quickly round.