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• n  someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently
• n  a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to

• Cute Things Falling Asleep might be the most adorable time waster since Animal Planet began hosting puppy sporting events.
• As history, Ike is a waste of time, but as a time waster, it more than fills the bill.
• My neighbors have concluded that full-time wood heating is dirty, dangerous (chain saws are worse tempered than alligators), economically foolish, a champion time waster and .

• wastrel
• destroyer
• ruiner
• undoer
• uprooter

News & Articles

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• Angry Birds, Furious Forces! by Rhett Allain [Uncertain Principles]
  Rhett at Dot Physics departed ScienceBlogs before NAtional Geographic fully took over, but still managed to connect with their book division for a physics text. This is part of a series they’re doing tied in with the folks from Rovio, makers of the world’s most popular smart-phone time-waster, and, as the title suggests, it uses…
  June 7, 2013 - ScienceBlogs

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
  I suggest Gordon Brown said (privately) "Doesn't this private sector waster realise the Government IS the economy".