boondoggle
noun
a wasteful and worthless project undertaken for political, corporate, or personal gain, typically a government project funded by taxpayers.
boondoggling
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present participleof boondoggle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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How do you think this cautionary tale plays that such boondoggling won’t happen again?
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2019
I think that you can’t ever protect yourself from boondoggling.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2019
Last week's 12,000 visitors, sauntering down the nine cool galleries of the Institute's east wing, found scarcely a boondoggling brush stroke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aubrey Willis Williams, National Youth Administrator, veteran defender of boondoggling, changed his tune about NYA.
From Time Magazine Archive
And while they were boondoggling around in Litchfield, we could pick out the best workers, get rid of the incompetents, and train a few supervisors.
From The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
