as in to spend
to use up carelessly
warned that a childhood spent hanging around indoors was a misspent youth indeed
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Alarmingly, its improper payment rate exceeds 15 percent, representing approximately $100 billion in misspending each year.
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Gary D. Alexander, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
There are also mounting concerns that the new wealth has been misspent.
—Piotr Zalewski, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2014
But then oil prices dropped and Chávez died, followed by Castro, and the money that had flooded into Cuba to fund Revolution 2.0 was gone, largely misspent and stolen.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
In February, he was found liable for misspending $5.4 million of the group's money by a New York jury.
—Hans Nichols, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
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Gary D. Alexander, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
There are also mounting concerns that the new wealth has been misspent.
—Piotr Zalewski, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2014
But then oil prices dropped and Chávez died, followed by Castro, and the money that had flooded into Cuba to fund Revolution 2.0 was gone, largely misspent and stolen.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
In February, he was found liable for misspending $5.4 million of the group's money by a New York jury.
—Hans Nichols, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Misspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misspend. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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