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misspent

adjective as in wasted

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And in 2008, a U.S. official told The Guardian that as much as 70 percent of U.S. military aid had been “misspent.”

Misspent moments are so much of life and character thrown away; be careful to use them all in God's service.

This may appear for us a toilsome task, but if the reader be not fatigued also, our time will not be misspent.

Be silent, man, if you do not wish your sinful, misspent life to come to a sudden and violent end.

There is one way in which leisure is very generally misspent in school—and alas, outside, too!

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.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misspent, such as: blown, dissipated, idle, misapplied, squandered, and down the drain.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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