Time-waste

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The wasting of time.
  2. 2
    That which wastes time; a waste of time.
Verb
  1. 1
    To waste time. intransitive

    "In truth, there is nothing to love and nothing to hate about the Justin Bieber idol and if we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by this nothingness, we are just wasting our time. And there is no need for us to time-waste a second longer."

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"In truth, there is nothing to love and nothing to hate about the Justin Bieber idol and if we have allowed ourselves to be distracted by this nothingness, we are just wasting our time. And there is no need for us to time-waste a second longer."

Etymology

From time + waste.

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