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- verb Present participle of
fritter .
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Examples
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And he blamed the Conservatives for what he characterized as frittering away the $12-billion surplus they inherited from Martin's administration in 2006.
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I think frittering is a necessary pleasure … really!
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So following on from Astroturfing, which is the creation of fake grass roots support, we now have the practice of "frittering" - creating a fraudulent Twitter account.
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And I don't think of interstitiality is a kind of artistic multi-tasking, although I can see how that might be a useful metaphor for those who can actually multi-task without its devolving into mere purposeless frittering, which is inevitably what happens to me.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2 2010
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Woman may do, and does do, a great deal of unpleasant, tiresome work; she fritters away her time upon occupations which require "frittering;" but beyond that she does not do the "paying" work.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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British film was its "frittering" away of vast sums of money on impossibly expensive productions that then fail to find two paying customers to rub together.
The Guardian World News Danny Leigh 2010
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He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest.
Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas Matt Jordan 2011
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He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest.
Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas Matt Jordan 2011
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Unfortunately, the story fuels the perception of out-of-touch athletes living for the moment, out of touch with reality and frittering away money they will need later on in life.
Andrew Brandt: Dinner on Dez: Cowboys feast on rookie Andrew Brandt 2010
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He works on George's dreams of a better life than the one he ekes-out helping the community, building his resentment for being "trapped into frittering away his life away playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic-eaters," for choosing to value community over his own self-interest.
Matt Jordan: Don't Crawl to Potter This Christmas Matt Jordan 2011
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