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Wastebasket

Wastebasket meaning

A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin. | Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.

Example sentences (10)

She had told the Fontanka newspaper that her isolation room was dire — no books, no shampoo, no Wi-Fi and a wastebasket that was never emptied.

Officers also located a used condom in a wastebasket, according to the complaint.

The hand dryer huffed and puffed and blew so hard that a bunch of towels flew out of the wastebasket.

There was a wastebasket below the hand dryer filled with used paper towels.

Additionally, Linnaeus created a wastebasket taxon "monstrosus" for "wild and monstrous humans, unknown groups, and more or less abnormal people".

Billy is talking on the phone to the bank examiner, and lights his cigar and throws his match in the wastebasket.

Class IV Class IV is something of a wastebasket; its ambers are not polymerized, but mainly consist of cedrene-based sesquiterpenoids.

I. technique" in which dumpster diving or its equivalent "wastebasket recovery" figures prominently.

It has not been demonstrated that the Nilo-Saharan languages constitute a valid genetic grouping, and linguists have generally seen the phylum as "Greenberg's wastebasket", into which he placed all the otherwise unaffiliated non-click languages of Africa.

Many disparately related species were subsequently added to the Rhynchocephalia, resulting in what taxonomists call a " wastebasket taxon ". citation Williston proposed the Sphenodontia to include only tuatara and their closest fossil relatives in 1925.