frittering

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for frittering
Adjective
  • Owning my gear has significantly streamlined my travel experience — no more wasting time in long rental lines, dealing with mystery-smelling boots that have seen better days, or forking out cash for rentals every season.
    Erica Paige, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a lipstick loop, a key leash (no more wasting time rummaging around on your doorstep), an RFID-blocking compartment for your wallet, and multiple zippered and quick-access interior pockets.
    Jessica Macdonald, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
Adjective
  • That is often viewed by us profligate, protein-burning, fat-loving energy spendthrifts as an inferior form of metabolism.
    Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Cash for rent – Conservatives generally speaking hate the idea of profligate spending on social benefits, seeing them as entitlements that create indolence and a constituency for bureaucracy.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The directive calls for a comprehensive transformation strategy that includes streamlining the Army's force structure, eliminating wasteful spending, overhauling the acquisition process, and modernizing outdated defense contracts.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • As the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Musk swooped into Washington in January with a proverbial—and sometimes literal—chainsaw, seeking to hack and slash wasteful government spending.
    Chris Dobstaff, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Galle’s father worked for Marie Antoinette, but the French Revolution unsurprisingly had a major impact on the aristocratic market for spendthrift furnishings like this.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.
    Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
  • In a competitive global marketplace, the change in direction certainly appears to demonstrate Established & Sons’s eagerness to cast aside its prodigal image in favor of a leaner, smarter approach to the design business.
    Ian Volner, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The song itself is written as a series of toasts, imagining returning home after being the prodigal youth.
    Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Frittering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frittering. Accessed 13 May. 2025.

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