conspicuous waste

Brian Lowry, CNN: “Ultimately, ‘Cats’ feels like a conspicuous waste, in what the studio is describing as an ‘epic musical.’

In a conspicuous waste of scarce resources, Senegal is sending 300 of them to Russia.

Consumers increasingly expect the businesses they frequent to reduce their environmental footprints and fast-food chains produce some of the most conspicuous waste.

In good society, a publicity agent who advertises her husband's financial status through conspicuous waste and conspicuous leisure.

By the ripening end of the 19th century, Thorstein Veblen could chart, in The Theory of the Leisure Class, the "conspicuous consumption" and "conspicuous waste" that had become the crass proof of status among the very well off.