INEFFICIENT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for INEFFICIENT, such as:
1. Existing methods of production are expensive and inefficient.
2. Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
2. Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
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Meanings and Examples of INEFFICIENT
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inefficient
a. lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
a. not producing desired results; wasteful
Classic Sentence:
1 They were merely two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves.
2 There I was stretched, when you, my dear Watson, and all your following were investigating in the most sympathetic and inefficient manner the circumstances of my death.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
3 His wife had never shown any jealousy of Mattie, but of late she had grumbled increasingly over the house-work and found oblique ways of attracting attention to the girl's inefficiency.
4 His only daughter was exceedingly delicate, and he feared that, with no one to look after her and attend to her, her health and life might yet fall a sacrifice to her mother's inefficiency.
5 The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.
Example Sentence:
1 Make sure that the furnace is the right size for your home; a unit that is too large is inefficient.
2 Existing methods of production are expensive and inefficient.
3 That regime - in which fewer than a third of firms shoulder the entire corporate tax burden - has been seen as essentially subsidizing inefficiency and punishing profitability.
4 Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.