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Definition of "misspent" []

  • Spent in a bad way, squandered (adjective)
  • Simple past tense and past participle of misspend. (verb)

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Use "misspent" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "In the early days of his England captaincy, John Terry often found himself wincing when asked to recall his misspent youth."