query: What's a good word or idiom for the action (or the person) of creating unnecessary work steps when the task at hand can be accomplished much faster?
positive_passages.docid: 10739
positive_passages.text: What's an idiom for doing something in an unnecessarily complicated way?
negative_passages.docid: 2859
negative_passages.text: How to say "You have this much work to do because you decided to do that much" more elegantly?
negative_passages.docid: 53359
negative_passages.text: An idiom meaning someone's doing something useless and has no result at the end
negative_passages.docid: 89688
negative_passages.text: Idiom or expression that would imply "someone is a habitual liar"
negative_passages.docid: 87406
negative_passages.text: Completing something just to finish it despite lack of interest - is called …?
negative_passages.docid: 85416
negative_passages.text: I need an alternative term for “master,” as in someone who has “mastered” a particular craft
negative_passages.docid: 105029
negative_passages.text: Word or Phrase for "Easily Swayed"
negative_passages.docid: 30767
negative_passages.text: What is a word to describe inefficient communication?
negative_passages.docid: 154431
negative_passages.text: Word for a person being used
negative_passages.docid: 139952
negative_passages.text: Is there a verb for making a statement/sentence milder or "dumbing it down"?
negative_passages.docid: 4770
negative_passages.text: Is there a word/idiom for someone who thinks long and hard before spending money?
negative_passages.docid: 27566
negative_passages.text: Etymology of "quick" of a fingernail, as in "cut to the quick"
negative_passages.docid: 6668
negative_passages.text: Conundrum: "cleverer" or "more clever", "simpler" or "more simple" etc
negative_passages.docid: 139129
negative_passages.text: What is a word for doing something that you don't want to do?
negative_passages.docid: 78329
negative_passages.text: What is the word for a person who does different jobs?
negative_passages.docid: 45338
negative_passages.text: Word meaning a job someone is installed in where they don’t do anything
negative_passages.docid: 64634
negative_passages.text: work in/at/on something