frittering's Usage Examples:

Other stories link the name to an old Victorian nursery word for frittering away time, or a nickname given to a lazy pumpkin farmer by his irritated.

"UK film-makers 'frittering away millions'".

"Nelson: Ralph Bucks and the fine art of frittering away "1.

though "always temperate and abstemious in his habits he had a talent for frittering away his money".

Grimm explains that the young man has been frittering away his time in France, his fancy alighting on one woman after another.

Tribal members were annoyed that the leadership appeared to be frittering away the large annual income on expensive hui.

been better off saving the best songs for a new studio album rather than frittering them away on a mixed bag of a soundtrack which makes the fatal mistake.

‘Grampy Can Ya Hear Me’ does a lot of little things well while frittering away the overall episode in about six different narrative directions.

brothers bitterly resent the loss of opportunity resulting from their father frittering away this money which means they have to qualify the hard way, by first.

had returned to China long ago and was lurking somewhere near Langya, frittering away the expedition's impressive budget.

solipsist", with a voice that has been described as "a fragile sort-of warble frittering around haunted melodies in the American folk or country tradition.

London Mayor Boris Johnson admitted frittering away his student years "fooling around", but said he hoped his "embarrassing".

developer, he realized "he had unwittingly created a system that was frittering away, in ten-second increments, millions of hours of a most precious resource:.

But the whole thing is a little too precious and yes, weird - frittering away too much time on the supporting players [.

community began to dwindle, due to the decline of small crafts and the frittering away of the noble properties between the children[clarification needed].

He soon begins frittering away all his money to ensure Charity would be left with nothing.

children everywhere would profit from Chua's approach, and instead are frittering away their gifts—they're nice kids, not brats, but they are also self-indulgent.

his letters painted him to be, and he absconds with Esther's savings, frittering it away on whores, liquor, and gambling.

Synonyms:

friedcake; apple fritter; corn fritter;

Antonyms:

eat in; eat out; underspend; abstain;