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Misspent

mɪˈspɛnt
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. misspent
    Ill-spent; badly or uselessly employed: as, misspent time; a misspent life.
Quotations
One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.
Source Unknown
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner
Usage in the news

Audit finds Kansas Bioscience Authority's former leader misspent funds, destroyed documents. kansas.com

Afghans concur with Congress that aid money is often misspent. csmonitor.com

Explore how HUD spent, misspent or never spent $3.2 billion on housing construction across America. ashingtonpost.com

Nothing to Show we Misspent Anything. ketr.org

Grant has admitted that some of the funds from investors were misspent, he said. newsobserver.com

State investigation finds Mt Hood instructors may have misspent funds. portlandtribune.com

District Audit Finds Money Misspent . districtadministration.com

Japan's tsunami funds were misspent , government audit finds. globalpost.com

MMM > News > Amid misspent billions, the promise of personalized medicine. mmm-online.com

Auditors say funds misspent for Harmony campuses. mysanantonio.com

Romney's claims of misspent stimulus money. ashingtonpost.com

Federal stimulus money spent on home weatherization improvements for low-income-families is being wasted or misspent , according to Tennessee's Comptroller of the Treasury. marshalltribune.com

Arpaio's office misspent $80M in tax money. azcapitoltimes.com

Joe Arpaio's office misspent funds, analysis says. azcentral.com

Chris Cox, (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told 60 Minutes ' Steve Kroft how too much of the $10 billion for homeland security was misspent . cbsnews.com

Usage in literature

These were care-free, irresponsible days, and not, I am now convinced, entirely misspent. "The Trail of '98" by Robert W. Service

Pierre lives over again in swift review years of a misspent past. "Oswald Langdon" by Carson Jay Lee

My time during the last three years will not have been misspent. "At Aboukir and Acre" by George Alfred Henty

They talked, a little soberly, of thrift, and of their misspent years. "Pipefuls" by Christopher Morley

The students' time is not misspent. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914" by Various

Never, in many misspent days, had Altieri seen a more radiant vision. "Stradella" by F(rancis) Marion Crawford

You have misspent time enough. "The Young Man's Guide" by William A. Alcott

The whole ghastly revelation of a misspent life lay before them. "The Story of the Outlaw" by Emerson Hough

If the work be foolish, it surely is not less foolish because an honest and misspent lifetime has been passed in producing it. "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies" by James McNeill Whistler

In the coming years she will look back upon these moments with real pride, or regret, according to how she spent, or misspent them. "The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4)" by W. Grant Hague

Usage in poetry
Night is the time for care;
Brooding on hours misspent,
To see the spectre of Despair
Come to our lonely tent;
Like Brutus, 'midst his slumbering host,
Summoned to die by Caesar's ghost.
Farewell, we may not now recover
That golden "Then" misspent, passed by,
We shall not meet as loved and lover
Here, or hereafter, you and I.
My time for loving you is over,
Love has no future, but to die.
Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime,
Sees not the spectre of his misspent time?
And, through the shade
Of funeral cypress planted thick behind,
Hears no reproachful whisper on the wind
From his loved dead?
I was human, very human, and if in the days misspent
I have injured man or woman, it was done without intent.
If at times I blundered blindly—bitter heart and aching brow—
If I wrote a line unkindly—I am sorry for it now.