frittering

Example Sentences

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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
  • No more wasting time.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • Of course, the same folks who said Trump’s tariffs would cause runaway inflation also said Biden’s profligate spending wouldn’t cause inflation.
    E.J. Antoni, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • Dembele, once a creative, two-footed but profligate winger who Luis Enrique coached into a prolific striker, has not started any of the five Club World Cup games.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Overall, this wasn’t a terrible episode, but having our heroes start in the UK and then end up in Spain in the first episode felt rushed and wasteful.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 5 Sep. 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
  • McDaniels is the true prodigal Patriot.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Just how much will family visit the prodigal son Danny Reagan in Boston Blue?
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Frittering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frittering. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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