boondoggle
Example Sentences
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Organizers sought not only to remind the world that the Olympics were about joie de vivre, but also that the project didn’t need to be a $50 billion boondoggle.
What we got instead was a colossal boondoggle.
In its review, The Times described “Horizon” as “a massive boondoggle, a misguided and excruciatingly tedious cinematic experience.”
From Los Angeles Times
As often happens too, we can pinpoint the exact moment and exact dynamics when a policy boondoggle was born.
And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.
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