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boondoggle

[ US /ˌbunˈdɑɡəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. work of little or no value done merely to look busy
VERB
  1. do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

How To Use boondoggle In A Sentence

  • The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
  • We are now known as the boodle or boondoggle city. The Chicago Picasso.
  • Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it.
  • The road improvement scheme was a gigantic boondoggle.
  • The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.
  • Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
  • The road improvement scheme was a gigantic boondoggle.
  • Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles?
  • That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone.
  • As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law.
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