Sentence examples for absurd waste from inspiring English sources

That's an absurd waste of money.

(I wrote here recently about the absurd waste of lives and the horrific inequities that result from America's prosecutorial approach toward drug addicts).

It would an absurd waste of public money to compare sport in private and state schools, when the situation is entirely obvious.

Not only is this offensively paternalistic – as if left alone they might splurge on cigarettes and sweets – but it's also an absurd waste of resources.

It was an absurd waste of money, they said, as no one in a wheelchair was ever going to get over the super-rugged 4.6-mile trail.

But this would be an even crueler, more absurd waste of law-enforcement resources, and would defeat the aim of protecting tender sensibilities from disturbing sights and sounds.

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Some people on both sides of the Middle East divide yesterday described the battle over the photo contest as absurd and a waste of energy.

It's wasting absurd billions on counterproductive pseudo-security that makes us less secure, but that's the whole point.

Had they drawn this game it would have been an absurd throwaway, a shameful waste of points from a comfortable position.

When she first started, she said, she was astonished at the "enormous amount of time" men spent discussing the colour of her hair – a process that became "absurd and a complete waste of time".