awful waste

Frequency: 6.07.0 per million words

Describes a waste that is very bad or regrettable.

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Examples (10)

  • It’s an awful waste of money to buy a car you never drive.
  • Leaving all that delicious food on the table was an awful waste.
  • She felt it was an awful waste of her talent to work in such a boring office.
  • What an awful waste of time that three-hour meeting turned out to be!
  • The conflict resulted in an awful waste of young lives.
  • It would be an awful waste to throw away these perfectly good clothes.
  • Spending the whole weekend indoors was an awful waste of the beautiful weather.
  • Critics called the failed government project an awful waste of public resources.
  • It seems like an awful waste to let such a beautiful historic building sit empty.
  • I think it's an awful waste that they didn't use his expertise for the project.