More than is needed, desired, or required.
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
Синонимы
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 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.
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.
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.
6 The result is a well-defined selection devoid of padding or superfluous submissions.
7 It was pure to austerity; it was stripped of all superfluous ornament.
8 Steering response is adjustable -light, normal and heavy -but superfluous .
9 The sculptor makes the marble image by chipping away the superfluous marble.
10 There is nothing turgid in his dignity, nor superfluous in his copiousness.
11 Mr. Van Torp asked the wholly superfluous question in a displeased tone.
12 The necessary was there and there was no lack of the superfluous .
13 The thing was done; the priest's words of exhortation were largely superfluous .
14 The Girl and the Chaperon.-Youthscorns the chaperon, regarding her as superfluous .
15 His Excellency need exercise no prerogative of mercy; his aid is superfluous .
16 The young woman saw before her a superfluous witness of the scene.
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