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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a complex and wasteful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process, system, or situation that is unnecessarily complicated and inefficient.
Example: "The current method of data collection is a complex and wasteful approach that needs to be streamlined."
Alternatives: "an intricate and inefficient" or "a convoluted and unproductive".
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Greater Manchester, like the rest of the UK, runs its public services through a complex and wasteful mesh of overlapping organisations, which have separate files and information.
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The Vatican's communications operations are a striking example of the complex and wasteful manner in which the Church's institutions have evolved.
The current £7billion a year system of tax credits, free nursery hours, childcare vouchers and child benefit is overly complex and wasteful.
A forthcoming series of strikes is supposed to culminate in a nationwide "day of action" on March 14th.One reason for the strong feelings is that, after a slow and shaky start, the government's ambitious plans announced 15 months ago to overhaul the whole of France's hideously complex and wasteful state health system are beginning to bite.
It's a great mystery; a tragic and wasteful one.
"I think that the strategy of running a negative ad campaign instead of having constructive dialogue seems wasteful, wasteful of an opportunity and wasteful of money".
Maybe the heat was getting to me but it seemed a little disorganised and wasteful.
Micro-management is a very exhausting and wasteful behavior and few can keep it up to any extent.
Worshipping deities would seem to be an irrational and wasteful habit, yet it has been found in all cultures.
It also would be massively wasteful if Thomas Worrell Jr., the owner of this self-proclaimed "living resort and rejuvenation center," hadn't invested roughly $500,000 in a complex water recycling and purification system called a Living Machine.
We are inside a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption.
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