I have written a good deal about the immorality, the unwisdom, the short-sightedness, the sinful wastefulness of a lie.

Preachers have preached against it in vain; economists have argued against its wastefulness in vain.

This peculiarity of Isbel's began to be related in my mind to his wastefulness as a cook.

The wastefulness due to a lack of foresight.