frittering

adjective

Definition of fritteringnext
as in wasting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frittering
  1. wasting
  2. profligate
  3. wasteful
  4. spendthrift
  5. prodigal
Adjective
  • 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
  • No more wasting time.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2022
Definition of wasting
Adjective
  • Tiny shampoo bottles are no longer seen as cute freebies by many travelers but as profligate waste when refillable larger containers make more environmental sense.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.
    Virginia Postrel, Boston Herald, 2 Sep. 2024
Definition of profligate
Adjective
  • Losers House Speaker Mike Johnson: The Louisiana Republican is facing fierce backlash and threats to his speakership next Congress over what hard-line conservatives characterize as wasteful pork barrel spending.
    Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But the incoming Trump administration has declared the tax credits wasteful spending, making their fate uncertain.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of wasteful
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
Definition of spendthrift
Adjective
  • Newport ’65 was really a Thanksgiving dinner gone amok, in which the prodigal son and the father and several uncles and others are fighting.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • First, the show’s barnburner opening number is followed by a very, very, very long group performance at the show’s midpoint after prodigal son Johnny’s arrival.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of prodigal
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