wasted

[wasted]

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being

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Adjective
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"

Adjective S.
made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

Adjective S.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

Adjective S.
not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

Adjective S.
serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"

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imp. & p. p.
of Waste


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Usage Examples

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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