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Waste of money

noun

Money spent for inadequate return.

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"Waste of money" Quotes from Famous Books

... my reckless waste of money (as she had done with regard to the brown cloak), but to no avail, and thereafter if she occasionally brought the conversation round to Oriental jewelry, I am sure she is not to be blamed. She is still wearing that ring, though she no ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... suddenly, with ill-concealed complacency, as she counted out the beer bottles, "William, ma'am, is a teetotaller. Yes, m'm; and he don't smoke. Smoking, ma'am," said Jane, as one who reads the heart, "do make such a dust about. Beside the waste of money. And the smell. However, I suppose they got to do ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... charge of burials found fault with the waste of money on funeral pomps. For instance, the officer for the display of armorial distinctions was really useless. It would be far better to have a goodly display of wax-tapers. A low mass accompanied by ...

— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert

... said the Professor, with his wonted amiability, "which you are not. No, I can only call it a senseless and reprehensible waste of money." ...

— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey

... said that the only enemy that Holland could fear was Germany, but an invasion from that quarter could be easily repulsed by cutting the dikes and drowning the invaders. The sea, he taught Boyne, was the great defence of Holland, and it was a waste of money to keep such an army as the Dutch had; but neither the sea nor the sword could drive out the Germans if once they insidiously married a Prussian prince to the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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