ill-spent
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Referring to foreign earthquake aid after 2010 that Haitians said was ill-spent, he called for all assistance to be channeled through the state.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2021
On June 20, he tweeted: “For me, a tweetless night, like tonight, is an empty, ill-spent, fruitless night, not worthy of owning a computer or its keyboard.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2020
After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the foreground are eroded ideals, ill-spent passions and the taste of ashes that flavors lives without a guiding purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never more Those summer shadows rising from the past Of a not ill-spent nor inglorious life, Mellowing the last hours as the night approaches,460 Shall soothe me to my moment of long rest.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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