conspicuous consumptionin a sentence
- The party was an exercise in conspicuous consumption.
- Her conspicuous consumption is my "keeping up with the joneses."
- Veblen coined the phrase conspicuous consumption in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class.
- Conspicuous consumption in the country is out of favor since kidnappings increased.
- But despite his aversion to money and conspicuous consumption, Chris's political leanings could not be described as liberal.† (source)
- His kind of conspicuous consumption was notably absent from the lives of the other two Wise Men.† (source)
- In addition, in Udaipur, the median household allocated 10 percent of its annual budget to weddings, funerals, or religious festivals, often involving conspicuous consumption.† (source)
- The fragile records of that period had not evolved into our cheap items of conspicuous consumption.† (source)
- It was not a question of conspicuous consumption, but rather a problem of privacy.† (source)