fritter
verb (used with object)
to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed byaway ).
are frittering
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present progressiveof fritter.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It’s hard to imagine the money you are frittering away giving you the kind of entertainment you could have with $125,000 after three decades.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Hilda Burke, psychotherapist and author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, says there's now more widespread awareness about how much time people are "frittering" away on social media platforms.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
She says we are frittering away our money while real people out there need it much more than we do.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2021
My friend, a parent for whom a trip to the cinema now takes a village, was genuinely annoyed I’d gone at all: “People are frittering away their precious cinema privileges on Cats?!”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2020
You are frittering away your mighty intellectual strength with the idiosyncrasies of creeds and the clumsy detail of cults, instead of considering the psychological phenomena of religion in its entirety.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
