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What does inefficient mean?

inefficient

not producing desired results; wasteful an inefficient campaign against drugs outdated and inefficient design and methods (= ineffective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate an ineffective administration inefficient workers

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Simple sentences

The program's memory management was so inefficient that it actually damaged the RAM somehow!
This is highly inefficient.
This is inefficient.

Movie subtitles

Yes. I promoted him because John Fryer was grossly inefficient.
Stupid, inefficient idiots.
That's what I like about you- you're so inefficient.
Nora, leave that hopelessly inefficient person.
You're sloppy and inefficient.
Well, considering the fact that I'm one of England's foremost aeroplanists. it's rather jolly inefficient of them not to send me one before.
Inefficient, however.
Inefficient and illogical.
Mr. Chekov, your tricorder readings are totally inefficient.
The energy-release controls are also most inefficient.
Creator, your biological units are inefficient.
Inefficient.
That would be highly inefficient.
More money from me for your stupid, inefficient bungling.
He can own the sanatorium and I'll be out before you can say stupid, incompetent and inefficient!
Not only does it sound inefficient. it sounds like a tune on the hit parade.
Think of how inefficient this would make them.
Could I remind you that you're just an inefficient secretary?
Well, considering the fact that I'm one of England's foremost aeroplanists, it's rather jolly inefficient of them not to send me one before.
Democracy's so inefficient.
Your tricorder readings are inefficient.
The energy release controls are also most inefficient.
Your biological units are inefficient.
Very inefficient.
You're a secretary, and a very inefficient one! Not only that, you're a woman!
We'll no longer need to depend on this inefficient way of distributing random genes.
Inefficient and organic machines?
I programmed Stevens to programme me to be inefficient.
You are inefficient but you are also a fool.

News and current affairs

The good news is that there are many ways by which improved incentives could reduce emissions - partly by eliminating the myriad of subsidies for inefficient usages.
This is highly inefficient, because while it is individually rational for depositors to want their money immediately, the bank might have been able to service all of them had they been collectively patient.
Otherwise, the Lisbon Strategy could merely empower an inefficient bureaucracy, rather than boosting the EU's democratic legitimacy.
Napolitano's move was crucial, filling Italy's need to replace the inefficient and scandal-ridden Silvio Berlusconi, in whom fellow leaders and global markets had lost all confidence, with an internationally respected figure.
One feature of Italy's turbulent politics remains consistent: the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
Instead of subsidizing inefficient solar and wind power with little benefit, we need to invest in long-term green innovation.
The countries that adopted the euro had poor labor-market institutions, bloated pension systems, high taxes on labor income, and inefficient service sectors in the late 1990's, and they still do now.
The sterling balances proved to be the starting point of vast and inefficient state planning regimes that did long-term harm to growth prospects in all the countries that took this course.
As a result, China's economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
In addition, China's economy suffers from inefficient state-owned enterprises, a shaky financial system, and inadequate infrastructure.
Inefficient and loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain the primary beneficiaries of official economic policy, kept alive on a drip-feed of government subsidies and cheap loans from state-owned banks.
It will, at long last, liberate the peasantry from the greatest historical burden it bears-the dead hand of a state that dotes on its inefficient industrial proletariat.
It is also an inefficient way of generating food; up to 30 crop calories are needed to produce one meat calorie.
Fourth, countries are poor often because of weak, inefficient, or corrupt government, characteristics that may disable them from taking cost-justified precautions.
With every country largely controlling its own energy policy, Europe's energy market has become inefficient and excessively dependent on Russian supplies.
Forget about subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use.
The British privatization program's greatest influence was in the former communist states, to which it gave the ideas and techniques needed to dismantle grossly inefficient command economies.
And these losses are massively skewed in ways that are grossly inefficient, in addition to being completely unfair.
At the same time, smallholder farmers need easier access to markets to sell their crops for a fair price, rather than relying on expensive middlemen or inefficient government bodies.
Excess capacity has been a priority for the State Council since 2005, when it issued industry-by-industry restrictions on new projects and targets for shutting down inefficient production.
The same applies to coal subsidies, except that the subsidies go to the most inefficient producers.
In other words, the US government was designed to be inefficient, in order to ensure that it could not easily threaten the liberty of its citizens.
A bloated, inefficient, and corrupt government has been able to survive with international help provided largely on account of Ukraine's geopolitical position.

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