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The phrase 'wasteful indulgence' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe when someone takes part in an activity that appears to be unnecessary or extravagant. For example, "John's weekend getaways to luxury resorts are a wasteful indulgence, considering his low salary."
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A wasteful indulgence.
This can make for inspired risk-taking — or wasteful indulgence.
If you hold dear the belief that spending money on anything beyond pure function is a wasteful indulgence -- if, in short, you're a Timex sort of consumer -- you will probably never get the point of the Chevrolet SSR.
I've witnessed spectacles of gourmet gluttony and wasteful indulgence that pique my constant (if latent) guilt about encouraging excessive consumerism.
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While Nancy's father, Spence, is reserved and skeptical of much of modern life, especially the wasteful indulgences of his daughter's generation, even when Lila is sick she's spirited and teasing.
Unlike Veblen's aristocrats, who are characterized by wasteful excess, today's Overclass, even in its indulgences, emphasizes the bourgeois virtues of self-discipline and concern for health, longevity and utility.
Unlike yesterday's aristocrats, who are characterized by wasteful excess, today's Overclass, even in its indulgences, emphasizes the bourgeois virtues of self-discipline and concern for health, longevity and utility.
Prosperity waits to be salvaged from a wasteful consumerism, a sense of belonging from a degraded individualism, and disciplined restraint from self-indulgence.
Velly wasteful.
An indulgence?
"Our society is wasteful".
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