Usage of "wanton away"

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Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.

Синонимы

Examples for "trifle"

Never less than clear, but... perhaps... perfectly clear but a trifle sketchy? 
 Drood: a novel 

Poppy is a trifle more particular about the soil it grows in. 
 The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. 

Sometimes I think he stretches the limits of the law a trifle. 
 One for the money 

The sole of the shoe was a trifle larger than the footprints. 
 The Abandoned Room 

Blanche leaned back in the steamer chair and turned a trifle pale. 
 In a Steamer Chair, and Other Stories 

Added to this, the Wallack takes an actual pleasure in wanton destruction. 
 Round About the Carpathians 

Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy 
 Meditations 

Sometimes I spy her afar off; but the wanton comes and goes. 
 Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 

And there will remain only the wanton soul in the virgin body.' 
 The Magician 

Did it make me a wanton to hope he might compliment me? 
 Lily of the Nile 

Pirate, my Jack Russell terrier, tended to piddle at the first sign of trouble. 
 The accidental demon slayer 

We can always take you back to the couch, and you can piddle yourself. 
 You can't stop me 

Anthony nodded and, suddenly remembering those spew-tits and piddle-warblers of the Bulstrode days, imperceptibly smiled. 
 Eyeless in Gaza 

Is it only piddle draining out of her now? 
 The Guardian 

It was as though those piddle-warblers had never existed. 
 Eyeless in Gaza 

Sixty per cent of the water used in farming is needlessly piddled away by careless irrigation. 
 The Guardian 

To trifle away time is indeed to be the greatest of spendthrifts. 
 How to Live a Holy Life 

You succeed in nothing, sir; unstable as water, you trifle away all existence. 
 International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science —... 

But I didn't hear the words I moved a trifle away. 
 Beyond the Vanishing Point 

How am I to bring up my children if I trifle away my time? 
 L'Assommoir 

She dropped her eyes, leaning a trifle away from him. 
 Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain 

Translations for wanton away

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Значения термина wanton away на английском