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waster
noun
Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
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That "presupposes self-discipline", but "whims and fancies rule the industry".Dev Anand, a former matinée idol who is now one of India's best-loved film-makers, confirms this view with his description of his fund-raising strategies: "I'm not a waster; I don't overshoot.
Her brother, now a successful actor, was very upset when she included on her first album a song berating him for being a waster and smoking too much dope.
At which point I was informed by the caller that they now use me for training new staff as I am the most evasive time waster they have met.
Everybody knows someone like that, or they've met a fantastically talented person who turns out to be a waster or they've lived like that, in a shit hole away from home.
The young have always mocked their elders by throwing time away, and Scrabulous became notorious among employers as a waster of man-hours.
The unconvincing genre conventions in "Gone Baby Gone" are at odds with its authentic, lived-in atmosphere, but no one can say that Affleck hasn't looked into the depths, and the movie ends on a resonantly ambiguous note: are the rights of motherhood absolute if the mother is an incorrigible waster?
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It is a time-waster, they say, a drain on family incomes, a usurper of land and water better used for cash and export crops like coffee, and possibly a dangerous narcotic too.
The European Union's requirement that websites ask for specific consent before accepting cookies, for example, is a ridiculous time-waster that has accomplished little more than forcing Europeans to spend more of their life's precious seconds clicking useless pop-up windows.Here's the basic point.
Data, including the time taken between clicks, help predict whether the user is a browsing time-waster or a potential buyer.
Sulking is a pastime reserved invariably for the ill-prepared, a pure time-waster.
Lunchbox staple; train journey time-waster; pint of Stella companion; hangover breakfast.
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