wastery

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have made up a total of two words in the last two days: 'wastery' and 'sinnery'.

oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2003

I've done enough to avoid any feelings of delinquent wastery, but enough to keep it from being a hectic mess.

oatcake Diary Entry oatcake 2003

It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body seemed in the nature of a cruelty.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

Golf, now justly cried down by our laws, {2} as the mother of cursing and idleness, mischief and wastery, of which game, as I verily believe, the devil himself is the father.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body seemed in the nature of a cruelty.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body, seemed in the nature of a cruelty.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

It's an awfu 'wastery o' time, what wi 'beuks, an' what wi 'stravaguin', an 'what wi' naething ava.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

No sober wit can say, that the injustice and injury done by the broken man to his brother, and against the Eighth Commandment, “Thou shalt not steal,” is nothing formally, but the very just and real debt that the surety hath taken upon him; and that the surety is as guilty of the same very fault and sin of wastery that is inherent in the broken bankrupt, as the bankrupt himself.

The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645