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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an utter waste" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe something that is a complete or total waste, usually in a negative context. For example: "The hours I spent watching that movie were an utter waste."
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"It was an utter waste of time".
It would all just be an utter waste.
Her wedding photos seemed to me an utter waste of time and resources.
I agree with you that it is a useless activity, an utter waste of time.
Anything too sharp or vinegary will make the chopping of mushrooms and peeling of potatoes an utter waste of time.
IF you worry that foreign aid is an utter waste, just chat with some mortality experts here in southern Africa — the coffin makers.
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Or that my impulsive visits to LOLCats are actually productive, not a complete utter waste of life and brain power like I had once thought?
To begrudge Guetta, to take to YouTube and call him a sell out, to fire off a pithy tweet about him, is a total and utter waste of time.
It's an exercise in futility if I've ever seen one, and a complete and utter waste of everyone's time and tax dollars.
Peter Herbert, the chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, said: "This correspondence seems a complete and utter waste of time.
With Chelsea consigned to the ignominy of Thursday nights on Channel Five or - even worse - ITV 4, I'm sure we all feel very sorry for their owner Roman Abramovich, who has finally got the free-flowing goal-speckled football he's been craving, only for it to prove a complete and utter waste of time.
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