Sentence examples for grossly wasteful from inspiring English sources

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The economy — of a major oil producer — has also been hit by a crippling mix: grossly wasteful mismanagement, a bureaucracy bloated by unqualified personnel, escalating greed, a five-hundred-per-cent budget increase since 2004, and plummeting oil prices.

President Rousseff – and her predecessor, "Lula", – consciously targeted spending on social programmes, such as Bolsa Familia, which have succeeded in lifting millions of Brazilians out of poverty, but failed to tackle other grossly wasteful and regressive elements of state spending.

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Velly wasteful.

Grossly unlikely.

"Our society is wasteful".

Some spending is wasteful.

The insured are wasteful.

It is also wasteful.

This is wasteful.

It's wasteful.

Outsiders may find this wasteful.

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