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
The use of the word "waste" as a technical term, therefore, implies no deprecation of the motives or of the ends sought by the consumer under this canon of conspicuous waste.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
The law of conspicuous waste guides consumption in apparel, as in other things, chiefly at the second remove, by shaping the canons of taste and decency.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
