unproductively

So many people actually frown upon using time "unproductively" (is that even a word?)

carinosa34 Diary Entry carinosa34 2003

The problem is that often, the attempts to employ them make them unproductively employed, which is no better than being idle, and considerably worse, if it wastes other, more durable resources in the process.

Matthew Yglesias » Bernanke on Japan 2010

I would be raging (unproductively and stupidly) at the unfairness of it all.

Clockwatching, Redux - Her Bad Mother 2010

Tax increases are a drag on the economy, and they transfer funds from the private sector, which would use that money productively, to the public sector, which will use that money unproductively.

How to increase the deficit by cutting government spending 2011

And meditation might also help to reduce my blood pressure and anxiety levels, both of which are unhealthily and unproductively high.

Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

I can understand why we need extra people working unproductively in any field after we lose too many jobs overseas.

Pelosi weighs limiting new surtax to million-dollar households 2009

The problem is that often, the attempts to employ them make them unproductively employed, which is no better than being idle, and considerably worse, if it wastes other, more durable resources in the process.

Matthew Yglesias » Bernanke on Japan 2010

And meditation might also help to reduce my blood pressure and anxiety levels, both of which are unhealthily and unproductively high.

Left Neglected Lisa Genova 2011

The fact that people are unproductively sitting home in the U.S. and Greece does not obviate the need for the Fed to eventually deal with its mandate of providing stable prices.

As Interest Rates Rise Inflation To Follow 2010

Instead of allowing enlisted prisoners to languish unproductively in prison camps, where they were a drain on the empire's resources, the Germans assigned POWs to labor detachments (Arbeitskommandos) and sent them to work in factories, quarries, forests, mines, and fields.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008