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Creditors could seize any little bit of money the debtors ever got their hands on, until the ill-spent borrowings were paid off.
Sink and Swim 2009
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Creditors could seize any little bit of money the debtors ever got their hands on, until the ill-spent borrowings were paid off.
Sink and Swim 2009
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“Then come inhale some embarrassment,” she snarled, as the live-webcam ulcers spread up my spine and impaled my cornea with murky armpit stubble and ill-spent Euros.
Study-A-Broad Chris Vola 2011
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Trust me, this will not be time ill-spent. — janie2
Illinois A.G. Petitions Court to Remove Blagojevich - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Blank is dismayed when he sees athletes 'money being ill-spent because there wasn't the proper planning.
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Blank is dismayed when he sees athletes 'money being ill-spent because there wasn't the proper planning.
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As a connoisseur of 80s action films during my ill-spent youth, Norris always struck me as the most boring, least charismatic, worst actor among the bunch and look at his competition.
Is it just me ... LuLu 2009
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There's all sorts of money that has been ill-spent to date.
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Like indie rock, alt-weeklies always seemed like an unshakable bastion of uncorrupted cool in a world of over-commercialized blandness and a fundamental component of an ill-spent adolescence.
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This honourable fellow actually took care that what had been ill-gained should be ill-spent, nor was anything left him from his too ample fortune, save his depraved ambition and his boundless appetite.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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