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Definition of Frittered
1. fritter [v] - See also: fritter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frittered
Literary usage of Frittered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"In the country, if a sense of inability once seizes me, it haunts me from morning
to night ; but in town the time is so occupied and frittered away by ..."
2. The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious by John Fiske (1902)
"Thus it was that Hal leek frittered away his golden opportunity ; thus was his
great army scattered to little purpose ; thus did he allow the enemy to seize ..."
3. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"good" king so frittered away what did come in that by the beginning of 1364 he
was a million crowns in ..."
4. Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Transmitted to the by United States Dept. of State (1870)
"... supposing we were belligerents to allow the foreign enlistment act to be
frittered away by another country, as was allowed in the case of Quincy, ..."
5. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"... the Battle Monument, which is not sufficiently lofty to bear a very imposing
air, and is too much frittered into compartments to appear in good taste. ..."
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