Definition of Misspent

1. Adjective. Spent in a bad way, squandered ¹

2. Verb. (past of misspend) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misspent

1. misspend [v] - See also: misspend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misspent

misspeech
misspell
misspelled
misspeller
misspellers
misspelling
misspellings
misspells
misspelt
misspend
misspender
misspenders
misspending
misspends
misspense
misspent (current term)
misspoke
misspoken
missprision
missprisions
misstamp
misstamped
misstamping
misstamps
misstart
misstarted
misstarting
misstarts
misstate
misstated

Literary usage of Misspent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"And I misspent my tyme." •viij December. — John Danter. Entrée! for his opie, &c. a ballad intituled The honors achieved in ..."

2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Years in the Slums — The Christian End of a misspent Life — Nearing the River — Nellie's Death — Who Was EM '!— Twenty-four Years a Tramp — Last Words. ..."

3. Voices of the Night by John Cumming (1854)
"SPENT AND misspent. " It is a season for the quiet thought And the still reckoning with thyself. The year Gives back the spirits of its dead, ..."

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