[
US
/ˌbunˈdɑɡəɫ/
]
NOUN
- work of little or no value done merely to look busy
VERB
- 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.