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misspent

/mis-spent/US // mɪsˈspɛnt //

花费不赀,误用,花费不多,花费不赀的

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : simple past tense and past participle of misspend.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, officials in Nebraska have found that nearly 66% of the state’s unemployment money has been misspent on things like potentially fraudulent claims, payments to ineligible inmates and people receiving benefits from multiple programs.

  • The review found “the allegations were not credible and that no funds were misspent,” a district spokeswoman wrote in a letter to the editor.

  • Auditors for San Diego County – which previously provided several million dollars per year to the charity – found that as much as $1 million may have been misspent.

  • The legal review found the allegations were not credible and that no funds were misspent.

  • Earlier this week, VOSD’s Will Huntsberry told the story of community activist Roosevelt Blackmon, whose claim that Lincoln High School had misspent funds were vindicated more than a year after he began raising the issue.

  • 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.