Synonyms for squandering
squan·der·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. squanderingnoun

   spending resources lavishly and wastefully

   "more wasteful than the squandering of time"

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1. List of paraphrases for "squandering":

   wasting, waste, wastage

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1. Glenn Thrush:

   No one — not the bullpen of the New York Mets, not the French army, not Wile E. Coyote, not even Al Gore — is better at squandering a commanding lead than the Queen of Coasting, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And nobody is better at handing her adversaries talking points to undermine trust, on emails, on the Clinton Foundation, on her own refusal to do something as simple as talking to the reporters who cover her every day.

2. Christopher Herrod:

   The Republican have been given in congress a unique opportunity to have the presidency and the House and the Senate, i think they’re squandering that. I ’ll go back and remind them they’ve got to get to work.

3. John Mason Brown:

   The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   Instead of creating jobs or raising workers’ wages, the Republican Congress spent seven months doing everything it could to raise Americans’ health costs to hand tax breaks to the richest, now, after squandering months on a cruel and dangerous agenda, Republicans have closed down Congress for five weeks with no jobs bill, no infrastructure bill, no budget, and no plan to avert a catastrophic default.

5. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

   When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.