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

All this material apparatus may, therefore, without implying deprecation, be broadly characterized as items of conspicuous waste.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

While some progress was made, it was in the face of conspicuous waste of life and energy, and the process of national protection of humanity has been of doubtful utility.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)