misspent
simple past tense and past participle of misspend.
spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
Origin of misspent
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How to use misspent in a sentence
And in 2008, a U.S. official told The Guardian that as much as 70 percent of U.S. military aid had been “misspent.”
misspent moments are so much of life and character thrown away; be careful to use them all in God's service.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. ByrumThis may appear for us a toilsome task, but if the reader be not fatigued also, our time will not be misspent.
Be silent, man, if you do not wish your sinful, misspent life to come to a sudden and violent end.
With Airship and Submarine | Harry CollingwoodThere is one way in which leisure is very generally misspent in school—and alas, outside, too!
A Girl's Student Days and After | Jeannette Marks
And for me—I'm not that presoomtious to think I can square up a misspent life as a man might compound wi's creditors.
Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books | Horatia K. F. Eden
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