Crossword clues for frittered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fritter \Frit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Frittering.]
To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
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To break into small pieces or fragments.
Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.
--Pope.To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: fritter)
Usage examples of "frittered".
Brigade must be husbanded, not frittered away by being committed to the battle in dribs and drabs.
But this creation of the Craftsmaster, like the other, frittered away to impotence.
Personally, I think it's a damn shame Desere frittered away all this money on frivolities when it could have served a really useful purpose.
He worries that his girls' dowries will be frittered away while in other hands.
The Fowlers was still thoroughly packed since Alden had frittered away the afternoon reading Make Way for Ducklings and The Little Engine That Could after she had asked him to organize their books.
If she hadn't weakened and frittered away money on wind chimes and sandals and earrings, she wouldn't have remembered how much fun it was to fritter away money in the first place.
As each pay day draws nearer, the notion of buying a television grows in appeal, but once the money is in his account, it always gets frittered away before he can succumb to the ultimate indulgence.
Natalie said the impact of the note from the Secretary of State's office had somehow been frittered away.
Life should be lived, Friend Milo, not frittered away on trivialities.
I expect some distant relative died and left an inheritance that has made up for the one that Winterbourne frittered away.
When he had discovered his mistake and frittered away his father's vineyards, he had returned to Megalokastro with a broad-brimmed hat and the daughter of his Parisian landlady, and had opened a grocery.
Having frittered away lifetimes in pursuit of sensation, the span he had left in which to make good the error of that waste could be measured in terms of hours.
As you yourself suggested, we began the war with a substantial numerical advantage which was frittered away in the opening battles.
But any money she had given Artorius, any support, would merely have been frittered away on one more campaign, one more battle, until death finally caught up with him.
Years piled upon years in dumb hibernation, frittered away for nothing.