inefficient
There is not enough aid, and what there is is spent inefficiently.
The land is being used inefficiently.
The law should be seen as a way to keep taxes from being spent inefficiently.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Useless and futile
adrift
aimless
aimlessly
aimlessness
airy-fairy
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
futile
futilely
negation
no goodidiom
non-viable
nugatory
ornamental
unrealistic
unrealistically
unseriousness
until you are blue in the faceidiom
unviability
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Delaying and wasting time