What is "frittered away"

Usage examples of "frittered away".

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.

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.

Kade had shamelessly frittered away a fortune, but seemed content at last—.

These disoriented Weddell seals were found far up all the Dry Valleys, dead for hundreds or thousands of years, frozen all that time, slowly frittered away by the winds, until the skeleton slowly emerged from the body like a soul taking off a fur coat, a soul white and wind-polished and articulated.

Most defined-benefit payouts get frittered away on miscellaneous expenses, and the worker’.