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
Exploitation of natural resources leads to conspicuous waste which may lead to want and future deterioration.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
Mediaeval castles, Venetian palaces, colonial mansions, all represented a form of social importance, what Veblen has called conspicuous waste.
From The Cost of Shelter by Richards, Ellen H.
