Losing you would be a shameful waste of talent.

It was a shameful waste of money.

What a shameful waste of taxpayer money.

This water would otherwise have flowed directly into the sea - a shameful waste in the eyes of the city's administrators.

It also seemed to these church members to be a shameful waste at a time when moderate-cost housing units were so hard to find.

That would be a shameful waste of an excellent talent.

It is such a shameful waste of a fine young life.

It nagged him it was a shameful waste of firepower.

What a shameful waste of such jolly good weapons!

The waste of it, he thought, the shameful waste of it.