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[ mis-spent ] / mɪsˈspɛnt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR misspent ON THESAURUS.COM
simple past tense and past participle of misspend. adjectivespent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth. Words nearby misspentmiss out on, misspeak, misspell, misspelling, misspend, misspent, misstate, misstep, miss the boat, miss the point, misstrike Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for misspentAnd in 2008, a U.S. official told The Guardian that as much as 70 percent of U.S. military aid had been “misspent.” What If the U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Pakistan?|David A. Graham|May 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST 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. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books|Horatia K. F. Eden Not to seek to change the stern decree; not to annul those bitter phrases: his dissolute career—the memory of his misspent youth! Satan Sanderson|Hallie Erminie Rives He rejected all modern forensic experience with scorn, declaring that he had misspent his youth in such studies. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1|Henry Hallam
Gone into the dim recesses of the past, leaving its record of misspent hours, false hopes, and disappointed expectations. See how our time has been misspent—behold how the golden opportunity is lost—perhaps, never to be regained! The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5)|John Marshall
Words related to misspentidle, dissipated, blown, squandered, misapplied, down the drain, imprudent, prodigal, profitless |