conspicuous waste
Example Sentences
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Brian Lowry, CNN: “Ultimately, ‘Cats’ feels like a conspicuous waste, in what the studio is describing as an ‘epic musical.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the Mark Twain Estate and Harper & Brothers this seemed a conspicuous waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
In strict accuracy nothing should be included under the head of conspicuous waste but such expenditure as is incurred on the ground of an invidious pecuniary comparison.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The economic substance of these proprieties will commonly be found on scrutiny to be a conspicuous waste of time and goods.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
