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 laws of survival, of adaptation, of variation and mutation prevail, and the evidence of conspicuous waste is ever present.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
Obviously, the canon of conspicuous waste is accountable for a great portion of what may be called devout consumption; as, e.g., the consumption of sacred edifices, vestments, and other goods of the same class.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
