awful waste
Frequency: 6.07.0 per million words
Describes a waste that is very bad or regrettable.
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- 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.