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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a horrendous waste of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express strong disapproval or criticism regarding the inefficient use of resources, time, or effort.
Example: "The abandoned project turned out to be a horrendous waste of taxpayer money."
Alternatives: "a terrible misuse of" or "an appalling squandering of".
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Dominic Dyer, of the Badger Trust said: "If every badger killed last year cost the taxpayer £3,000, that would be a horrendous waste of money on a policy that leading scientists say won't work.
The legal battles are "a horrendous waste of money," said Dr. Julio C. Palmaz, a radiologist who invented one of the earliest stents more than two decades ago and has often been a witness in patent cases.
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As an archetypal figure of the cold war, meanwhile, Mr. Savimbi epitomized the horrendous waste of the era's proxy struggles.
The council-run £5,000 labyrinth, which opened in the summer on a disused bowling green, received a mixed response from local people, with some calling it "horrendous" and a waste of taxpayers' money.
Perhaps Nevada matters less to you than Washington does, but transporting the waste to this state would potentially cost a horrendous number of lives and/or a horrendous amount of money.
That's a horrendous amount of money".
What a horrendous set of human values.
"It was a horrendous amount of money," Ms. Chase said.
It's been a horrendous loss of life".
The country's net foreign liabilities amount to a horrendous 90% of GDP.
All this subjected the field mouse to "a horrendous level of stress," Dr. Nestler told me.
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