Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill-spent; badly or uselessly employed: as, misspent time; a misspent life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
misspend .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Spent in a bad way,
squandered - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misspend .
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Examples
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It is very fitting that Mr. Frederic's last book should be in praise of action, the thing that makes the world go round; of force, however misspent, which is the sum of life as distinguished from the inertia of death.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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And his talk, we are told, during the fortnight that preceded his death, was not regret for a life we should, in seriousness, call misspent, but because partridges and pheasants no longer suited his condition, and he was obliged to be reduced to boiled meats.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847
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In the early days of his England captaincy, John Terry often found himself wincing when asked to recall his misspent youth.
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In the early days of his England captaincy, John Terry often found himself wincing when asked to recall his misspent youth.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan 'misspent'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan 'misspent' 2008
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The less PageRank points that will be "misspent" on low potential pages
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com Scott Smigler 2010
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Because only Vallas would know how to turn a disaster (a federal audit forcing the district to return milions in "misspent" funds) into a public relations opportunity:
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The less PageRank points that will be "misspent" on low potential pages
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010
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Republicans Conservatives in Canada cry fowl when $10 or $20 million is 'misspent' on the arts, but it's OK to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers money to inept managers and businesses in the wake of the financial instability in the US (and that's spreading to normally stable countries like Canada and those in the EU).
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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"misspent" youth at the old Billiken Bowl on Stedman Street.
unknown title 2009
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