wasted
IPA: wˈeɪstʌd
adjective
- Not profitably used.
- Ravaged or deteriorated.
- Emaciated and haggard.
- (slang) Very drunk or stoned.
- (medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).
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Examples of "wasted" in Sentences
- Instead of looking at this issue for what it is, we get a petty post about $2-$3 million in "wasted" money.
- Will they elect another Democratic Senator only to see his term wasted by the dying remnants of Plantation and slave owners?
- Mira took a nap, woke, heated a TV dinner, and prepared to study late into the night to make up for what she called a wasted day.
- FLATOW: And I'm trying to get my head around that fact that you just said, and the energy wasted is more than all the ethanol we're making ...
- In short, at a tolerably large wine-party there was wasted, or _worse than wasted_, a quantity of Port wine sufficient to check the ravages of a typhus fever in an entire village.
- This is one of the worst, it's costing this country billions of dollars in wasted funds, I feel as though there should be no argument as to whether or not this healthcare system of ours needs to be reformed, if the Republicans can actually come up with a better proposal then maybe we can reach some middle ground here.
- As brilliantly demonstrated in Jeff James's assured revival at The Print Room, in Bayswater, there's not a word wasted in this quietly harrowing portrait of a high-ranking official in an unnamed autocratic state conducting a series of sinister, sadistic "chats" with three detained and abused members of the same family: husband, wife and child.
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