‘he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle’
‘The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle.’
‘This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean.’
‘But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle.’
‘The PQ was especially given to swallowing corporate dogma whole, as evidenced by their mammoth funding of the short-lived ‘multimedia boom’ and other boondoggles.’
‘Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles?’
‘But guess whom they blame for the whole boondoggle?’
‘Sam knew how to prevent an opportunity like this from turning into a boondoggle for some official's family and friends.’
‘And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects.’
‘As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law.’
‘It's an absolute boondoggle, but I'm bringing it back.’
‘Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties.’
‘Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners?’
‘Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor.’
‘The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads.’
‘Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern.’
‘That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone.’
‘So why buy more of what looks like one of the great military boondoggles?’
‘But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me.’
‘He probably ends up working on some military boondoggle somewhere.’
‘The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.’
‘Their license area continues to be under attack as a political or ethnic boondoggle.’
Spend money or time on unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent projects.
‘the only guarantees are higher taxes and bureaucratic boondoggling’
‘If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere.’
‘Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.’
‘His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate.’
‘Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it.’
‘I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.’
‘He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military boondoggle he wouldn't hug.’
‘The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that boondoggle off their hands.’
‘Hopefully you can boondoggle your way till the end of the day.’
‘Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.’
‘Broadcast and telecom monopolists' message comes in loud and clear for boondoggled employees.’
‘But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices.’
‘Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be.’
Origin
1930s of unknown origin.
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