boondoggle

1 This is not a boondoggle walk in the park for the inmates.

2 The ambitious project has been widely lampooned over the years by many, including me, as a too-costly boondoggle and off track from the start.

3 If lower-profile art fare gets a bump in visibility, that’s great, and if a Silicon Valley boondoggle falls apart along the way?

4 To say that it's a boondoggle would be an understatement.

5 It’s as if everyone in the party was in on the boondoggle.

6 On Monday we opened on Bruce Wayne channeling Encyclopedia Brown, digging into the mystery of how his parents’ good intentions ended up lining mobster pockets in last week’s Arkham boondoggle.

7 Even in developing world cities like Jakarta, projects billed as climate change mitigation, like constructing artificial barrier islands, are really gussied up luxury real estate boondoggles.

8 Investors are done with being burned from energy boondoggles because of a lack of government diligence in issuing permits and oversight of projects.

9 Once considered by many to be a boondoggle, the technology has matured.

10 Its water levels are rising even as the city sinks; its solutions to both problems have resulted in some serious boondoggles.

11 Limits on stock buybacks by grant recipients would also help ensure this strategic giveaway doesn’t turn into a boondoggle.

12 Matthew Cooke’s sardonic yet informative documentary presents America’s war on drugs not only as a no-win scenario but as a boondoggle kept alive by corruption, profit and political opportunism.

13 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Bakersfield native, has long called the project, which would serve his own district, a boondoggle.

14 Washington needs that bridge, but elected officials need to do their due diligence and carefully check the work of planners to ensure taxpayers are footing the bill for a boondoggle with ever-escalating costs.

15 Still, Kurtzman is also partly to blame for Star Trek Into Darkness, a boondoggle of galactic proportions.

16 “It’s just a catalog of tax hikes and green boondoggles that Democrats have wanted for years, with a false new label slapped on the front,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tueday.

17 And then there was another crazy idea of building a capital on a square of swampland thatseemed mainly to be a boondoggle for wealthy land speculators at the time.

此外，还有一个疯狂的搬迁首都例子，就是在一片沼泽地上建立一个都城，这在当时看来简直就是有钱的土地投机商的异想天开。

18 Read the story for details on the tunnel, which Newsom describes as a climate solution but which opponents see as as a boondoggle.

19 Hogan rejected the plans and called the project a “wasteful boondoggle.”

20 The Seattle Aquarium is tying itself in knots to green-wash its new boondoggle of a project, but when it comes to animal welfare, there is no offset for its callousness and greed.

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