Good synonyms for "waste of time"? [closed]

Can't think of any off the top of my head, and the thesaurus comes up with bland results.

A timesink (or here). Also sometimes, time-drain or even time-waster.

Futility - n. the quality of being futile; ineffectiveness; uselessness.

Interestingly, this just came up today in this question.

There's a fun pair "tarry" and "dally". They both mean to purposely spend more time than necessary doing something. However, "tarry" is a positive way of saying it, and "dally" is a negative way.

Given how our culture is about "wasting time" these days, you don't hear "tarry" much anymore, which is kind of sad. It does appear in one of my favorite hymns though: In The Garden.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

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