Example Sentences

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I think that you can’t ever protect yourself from boondoggling.

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2019

How do you think this cautionary tale plays that such boondoggling won’t happen again?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2019

With its boondoggling finery removed, the great dead ditch was now a $44,000,000 barge canal with a wartime-living excuse: to mitigate the East Coast oil shortage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the word boondoggling is utterly inadequate to describe this program.

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 Piper, H. Beam