Disinclined to work or exertion.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
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Examples for "wasted "
Examples for "wasted "
1 But each year hundreds of thousands of tonnes are lost or wasted .
2 Time is wasted when both sides in debate employ the same tactics.
3 Every second that passed, every second they wasted , he thought of Lizzie.
4 He speaks the way he designs product: not a single wasted word.
5 That small debacle alone wasted almost three million pounds of taxpayers' money.
1 Ask her a sensible question and you're now guaranteed a senseless answer.
2 Governor Mark Dayton said in a statement: I deplore this senseless violence.
3 I thought this encapsulated the intense pain that such senseless violence causes.
4 Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless '.
5 Grettir kicked two of them in the ears and they fell senseless .
1 These advances would have been pointless without something much more fundamental: water.
2 Good intentions and bad intentions wash together, pointless over so much time.
3 For a start it's pointless judging attendances this early in the year.
4 Having a border poll in the next five years is simply pointless .
5 The work was laborious and pointless , as far as Aylaen could see.
1 Conclusions: Although highly sensitive, imaging is superfluous if an olive is palpable.
2 And yet the wealth of superfluous loveliness in the world condemns pessimism.
3 Migration of an older sci-fi term for an author's superfluous research material.
4 They're superfluous and leave thousands of uselessly downloaded JPGs in their wake.
5 Such a reservation in favor of his Majesty seemed a superfluous sarcasm.
1 The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless .
2 Haphazardly directed by Hester Chillingworth, the action underlining the text feels purposeless .
3 Once he arose to another of his purposeless circles through the woods.
4 Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery.
5 What beauty there is is in large part inadvertent, purposeless , and unadvertised.
Producing no result or effect.
1 There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose .
2 Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose , unadored.
3 Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4 There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose .
5 We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
6 Ignorant of business and entrepreneurship, they occupy the dead end, otiose and pension-orientated jobs they do.
7 His own girl sat sprawled out gracelessly on an overstuffed sofa with an expression of otiose boredom.
8 But it happens to be otiose .
9 A historian may be a theist; but, so far as his work is concerned, this particular belief is otiose .
10 He told me he had only just got it, and he drifted away into otiose explanations of this fact.
11 Such a comparison is otiose .
12 If they do this sufficiently, it is otiose and impertinent to entertain the notion of creating any new theatrical agency.
13 As a result, it is rather otiose to do the forecast before you have concluded what mitigation is possible, he said.
14 If one based one's view of his achievement on Licht, so often theatrically naive and musically otiose , the answer might well be yes.
15 Our voting system does not have any method of voting for or against any coalition combination, so this type of question is probably otiose .
16 It was very cordial, and it appealed directly, only the style was otiose , but in matters of the first importance style is a hindrance.
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