Adjective : a needless waste of food. From Dictionary.com.
"Provides conclusive evidence of the needlessness of the proposals"?. From Wordnik.com. [Detention Without Trial: Law and Order Tories Sell Souls] Reference
The bluntness of her retort gave him an almost rueful conviction of the needlessness of caution. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
When I was reading Portfolios of the Poor, I kept thinking about the needlessness of all the characters' suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Against Growth Agnosticism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
She would lie awake listening wearily to the tiny chimes of the little clock with the bitter sense of her needlessness crushing her. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Perhaps it was the sheer needlessness of this awful loss of life that motivated people to turn out in protesting thousands that week. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture] Reference
Mr Ottewell believes that somehow the answer Mr Davis procured from the Home Department provides conclusive evidence of the needlessness of the proposals. From Wordnik.com. [Detention Without Trial: Law and Order Tories Sell Souls] Reference
Whether they were aware of the needlessness of concealment, or whether in the lack of suitable material they abandoned the habit, are questions for others to discuss. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
Oh, the needlessness, the cruelty, the folly of it!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume II] Reference
Oh the needlessness, the cruelty, the folly of it!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
It took only a few minutes to assure him of the needlessness of his fear. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
Thought of the needlessness of it wrung from him: "Ann -- how could you!". From Wordnik.com. [The Visioning] Reference
The needlessness of people dying when there is a ready solution disturbs me. From Wordnik.com. [Mr Wang Says So] Reference
Fox: "The needlessness of people dying when there is a ready solution disturbs me". From Wordnik.com. [Mr Wang Says So] Reference
Complaining about the needlessness of FlashGot is just a failure of the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Fileforum] Reference
The sister, struggling with shame, was irritated by the needlessness of her falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
The pain of those weeks stung her again -- the sorrow and the shame and the needlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference
But what frustrated me so much about these awful scenes were the needlessness of them all. From Wordnik.com. [Go Knit In Your Hat] Reference
My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he saw the needlessness of further questions. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
"Because we had such an example of the safety of the place and the needlessness of the task?". From Wordnik.com. [Patience Wins War in the Works] Reference
I told the doctor all about the preliminary verbal skirmish and the needlessness of the fight. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography] Reference
The argument assumes, first, the needlessness of a Standing Army, and, secondly, its evil influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Duel Between France and Germany] Reference
There was time even then too for one swift thought of the needlessness and bitter fruits of wrong-doing. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
"Never thought of that, O 'Man," said Mr. Polly, and reflected silently upon the needlessness of Miriam. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
It seemed to come naturally to her, the understanding of the needlessness for her to do aught but listen. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
There was time even then, too, for one swift thought of the needlessness and bitter fruits of wrong-doing. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy, Volume II] Reference
"But the needlessness and cruelty, the stupidity and arrogance, that produced this tragedy cannot be forgiven by me.". From Wordnik.com. [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference
As to the needlessness of the movements of troops I am a better judge than the newspaper reporters who write about it. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78] Reference
It is not the custom on the Seward Peninsula to cook for the dogs, and dog mushers there argue the needlessness of that trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
Lady Busshe, Mrs. Mountstuart comprised all that the others had said, by showing the needlessness of allusions to the saliently evident. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Shakespeare's quick mounting spirit is in the lines, and the needlessness of the argument shows that we have here a personal confession. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Shakespeare] Reference
How much the young soldier-student of the Saone comprehended then of the needlessness of the shame and surrender of those inglorious days we do not know. From Wordnik.com. [Foch the Man]
With comfortable sincerity Rolfe was able to maintain the needlessness of divulging anything beyond the state of Abbott's health and his pecuniary troubles. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
The far greater question, to which the only answer can be a sad silence of remorse and bitter humiliation, bears upon the awful needlessness of their sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
“Never thought of that, O’ Man,” said Mr. Polly, and reflected silently upon the needlessness of Miriam. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
But the needlessness and cruelty, the stupidity and arrogance that produced this tragedy cannot be forgiven by me, ". From Wordnik.com. [News from www.rep-am.com] Reference
In asking that, and a great needlessness; 530. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Annandale. III. Captain Craig, Etc] Reference
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