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misspent
[ mis-spent ]
adjective
- spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted:
misspent youth.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of misspent1
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Example Sentences
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.
This 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.
There is one way in which leisure is very generally misspent in school—and alas, outside, too!
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.
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