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Wordy
  1. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
Wasted
  1. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
  2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
  3. not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
  4. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
  5. become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  6. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  7. cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
  8. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
  9. spend extravagantly;
  10. use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"
  11. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
  12. run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
  13. get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"
  14. spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
Weather-Bound
  1. delayed or shut in by bad weather; "weather-bound traffic"; "irritable weather-bound children"
Well-Connected
  1. connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position; "a well-connected Edinburgh family"
Welfarist
  1. of or relating to a welfare state
Welfare-Statist
  1. of or relating to a welfare state
Withering
  1. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"
  2. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
  3. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
  4. wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
  5. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"
  6. waste away
Wasteful
  1. laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
  2. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
  3. tending to squander and waste
Watertight
  1. without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument"
  2. not allowing water to pass in or out
White-Bread
  1. of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class; "white-bread America"; "a white-bread college student"