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- noun Plural form of
time-waster .
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Examples
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As a result, I lose half of my day dealing with emails from time-wasters who have nothing to offer to me or to my company.
Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant Richard Laermer 2010
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As a result, I lose half of my day dealing with emails from time-wasters who have nothing to offer to me or to my company.
Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant Richard Laermer 2010
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For all its dangers, faults, and vapid time-wasters, the Internet's also created a vast network of independent voices belonging to no club and perfectly willing -- nay, eager -- to join on this issue.
Andrew Reinbach: Democrats, Winning, and Clarence Thomas Andrew Reinbach 2011
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As a result, I lose half of my day dealing with emails from time-wasters who have nothing to offer to me or to my company.
Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant Richard Laermer 2010
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None of the commenters involved have any political or accounting experience; in fact, the majority of them are time-wasters of a colorful variety.
Pablo Andreu: U.S. Budget Balanced in Giggling Baby Video's Comments Section Pablo Andreu 2011
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And they're time-wasters, and patience-wasters, and they're expensive.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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YouTube and other online video sources are time-wasters more than sources of entertainment.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Matt Richtel writing in the New York Times not too long ago said, Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters.
John M. Eger: Digital Kids and the Kahn Academy John M. Eger 2011
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
England, My England (Never Having Been There) Alan Bradley 2011
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As a result, I lose half of my day dealing with emails from time-wasters who have nothing to offer to me or to my company.
Richard Laermer: You don't want to help, you just want help: A rant Richard Laermer 2010
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