misspent
simple past tense and past participle of misspend.
spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
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How to use misspent in a sentence
Meanwhile, officials in Nebraska have found that nearly 66% of the state’s unemployment money has been misspent on things like potentially fraudulent claims, payments to ineligible inmates and people receiving benefits from multiple programs.
The review found “the allegations were not credible and that no funds were misspent,” a district spokeswoman wrote in a letter to the editor.
An Annotated History of the Community Square-Off Over Lincoln High | Will Huntsberry and Sara Libby | June 7, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoAuditors for San Diego County – which previously provided several million dollars per year to the charity – found that as much as $1 million may have been misspent.
VA Pulls Funding From Volunteers of America Southwest in Wake of Fraud Allegations | Will Huntsberry | May 24, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe legal review found the allegations were not credible and that no funds were misspent.
District Took Lincoln Misspending Claims Seriously | Maureen Magee | March 19, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoEarlier this week, VOSD’s Will Huntsberry told the story of community activist Roosevelt Blackmon, whose claim that Lincoln High School had misspent funds were vindicated more than a year after he began raising the issue.
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 MarksAnd 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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