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
To the Mark Twain Estate and Harper & Brothers this seemed a conspicuous waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is obviously not necessary that a given object of expenditure should be exclusively wasteful in order to come in under the category of conspicuous waste.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The conspicuous waste and leisure that Thorstein Veblen points out as the chief criterion of reputability at present have a dubious relation to high mental or moral endowment, far less than has wealth.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
