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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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the Army's force structure, eliminating wasteful spending, overhauling the acquisition process, and modernizing outdated defense contracts.—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
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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
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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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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
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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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