0 an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbish in, especially paper: --
Among that lot of paper— most of which went straight into my wastepaper basket—was a very illuminating document giving details of the nationalisation law.
I do not think this document will be thrown in the wastepaper basket.
They hardly look at the document and toss it into their wastepaper basket.
I sometimes fear that we tend to look upon backward children in a school as something that should be put in the wastepaper basket.
Therefore, it will have to go into the wastepaper basket, together with all the other undelivered speeches.
Frequently it is lost, thrown away or put into the wastepaper basket, and in many cases nothing more happens after that.
A tremendous number of technical journals reach the doctor and are thrown straight into the wastepaper basket because he has no time to read them.
If you try any other approach, your complaints end up in the wastepaper basket.