Mean
Mean adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.
Usage example: a mean child who hoarded all her toys
Squandering is an antonym for mean.
Squandering
Squandering adjective - Given to spending money freely or foolishly.
Usage example: the nightclub's ridiculous prices seem geared to squandering revelers with more money than sense
Mean is an antonym for squandering.
Both words in one sentence
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Unless you mean that war is inevitable, a kind of cyclical, Bataillean squandering of excess engergy — a view with which I'm inclined to agree.
Source: Analogy Backfire -
You mean like if somebody got right up in your face, and said that you're an IGNORANT, NO-TALENT, WHITE TRASH, FORTUNE-SQUANDERING VANILLA ICE-WANNABE LOSER, you'd be okay with that?
Source: Music / "Weird Al" Yankovic
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