misspent

[ mis-spent ]

/ mɪsˈspɛnt /

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simple past tense and past participle of misspend.

adjective

spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.

Words nearby misspent

missout, misspeak, misspell, misspelling, misspend, misspent, misstate, misstep, misstrike, missus, missy

Definition for misspent (2 of 2)

misspend

[ mis-spend ]

/ mɪsˈspɛnd /

verb (used with object), mis·spent, mis·spend·ing.

to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.

Origin of misspend

1350–1400; Middle English. See mis-¹, spend

OTHER WORDS FROM misspend

mis·spend·er, noun

Example sentences from the Web for misspent

And 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.

Rolling Stones |O. Henry
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

British Dictionary definitions for misspent

misspend

/ (ˌmɪsˈspɛnd) /

verb -spends, -spending or -spent

to spend thoughtlessly or wastefully

Derived forms of misspend

misspender, noun

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misspent

adjective

Words nearby misspent

Definition for misspent (2 of 2)

verb (used with object), mis·spent, mis·spend·ing.

Origin of misspend

OTHER WORDS FROM misspend

Example sentences from the Web for misspent

British Dictionary definitions for misspent

verb -spends, -spending or -spent

Derived forms of misspend

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

misspent

adjective

Words nearby misspent

Definition for misspent (2 of 2)

verb (used with object), mis·spent, mis·spend·ing.

Origin of misspend

OTHER WORDS FROM misspend

Words related to misspent

Example sentences from the Web for misspent

British Dictionary definitions for misspent

verb -spends, -spending or -spent

Derived forms of misspend