Inefficient

(adj.) not producing desired results; wasteful; 'an inefficient campaign against drugs'; 'outdated and inefficient design and methods' .

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• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Such machines were confessedly inefficient, although representing the farthest reach of a young art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The best fine grinding-machines that it was then possible to obtain were so inefficient as to involve a loss of 82 per cent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Not possible--or so inefficient, so careless a mamma; I should make a five times better one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Ledlie besides being otherwise inefficient, proved also to possess disqualification less common among soldiers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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