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
The interior of the structure shows the same pervasive guidance of the canons of conspicuous waste and predatory exploit.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
It is especially the rule of the conspicuous waste of goods that finds expression in dress, although the other, related principles of pecuniary repute are also exemplified in the same contrivances.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
