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- verb Present participle of
boondoggle .
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Examples
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While you are into boondoggling; the amount of money spent by the military for construction in Europe is insane.
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The private sector profit machine is who will benefit from more NASA boondoggling, just like the privatized arsenal system makes long war profits.
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Before they were even out of the terminal, Jane rounded on her, accusing Betty of being a spy from the Calcutta office “on a boondoggling hejira to the Land of the Lotus Eaters.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Before they were even out of the terminal, Jane rounded on her, accusing Betty of being a spy from the Calcutta office “on a boondoggling hejira to the Land of the Lotus Eaters.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Thing is, like Cherie, she'll soon begin to enjoy the boondoggling and become just as avaricious as Ms Booth, whose epitaph will surely be "Born in Bury - Buried in Bunce".
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They're not worth a heck of a lot, but they do require some thought, and can make up for some unfortunate boondoggling elsewhere.
Creditable 2009
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They're not worth a heck of a lot, but they do require some thought, and can make up for some unfortunate boondoggling elsewhere.
Academic 2009
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They're not worth a heck of a lot, but they do require some thought, and can make up for some unfortunate boondoggling elsewhere.
Scattered Musings 2009
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"Rhythmic dancing" — whatever that means — was also sponsored, as was craft-making, or what the Boy Scouts might have called "boondoggling."
The New New Deal 2009
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In Congress, those who wanted to keep the F-22 jet fighter boondoggling along raised an uproar over cutting a measly $1.5 billion out of a military budget that has swelled to over $630 billion.
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