The project is over budget and unnecessary. It is a complete boondoggle.
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Boondoggle
//ˈbuːndɒɡl̩//
Synonyms for "boondoggle" (2 found)
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8 translations across 6 languages.
Czech
1 entries- vyhozené peníze noun (pointless activity)
Dutch
1 entries- tijdverspilling noun (pointless activity)
Finnish
2 entries- ajanhukka noun (pointless activity)
- rahareikä noun (pointless activity)
German
2 entries- Zeitvergeudung noun (pointless activity)
- Zeitverschwendung noun (pointless activity)
Macedonian
1 entries- за́лудност noun (pointless activity)
Spanish
1 entries- pérdida de tiempo noun (pointless activity)
Sample sentences
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Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.
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Senator John Stennis […] has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget.
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By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not.
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