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
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
In point of practical fact, the norm of conspicuous waste is incompatible with the requirement that dress should be beautiful or becoming.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
