as in wasting
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Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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These cuts were implemented to shear fraud and wasteful spending.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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Democrats have bashed the Guantánamo effort as a wasteful political stunt, arguing the administration’s use of military resources to hold and deport migrants takes defense personnel away from their mission.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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Those could have been used to constrain distributions to or for the benefit of the spendthrift child.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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Then Ananya’s prodigal son, Vikram, arrives home unexpectedly after leaving the restaurant and his family years before, sparking fury and jealousy from his hard-working sister Vaidehi.—
Pamela Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Andrew texted the image far and wide to announce the prodigal son’s arrival.—
Cullen Daly,
Glamour,
10 May 2025
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“Frittering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frittering. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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