ill-spent
花费不多,花费不赀,耗费不赀,花钱不多
Definitions
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- : misspent; wasted.
Examples
As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.
Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.
Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.
They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.
I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying.
These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.
Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.
And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?
G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.