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Misspent

To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.

📖 Definitions of "Misspent"

verb

1
To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely.
"I misspent my youth making friends and meeting people. Wait a minute: that's the secret of my success!"

adjective

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
miswrought	Badly wrought (in the literal or figurative sense).
misgotten	ill-gotten
misallotted	allotted badly or wrongly
misusedverb	Used in an incorrect or inappropriate manner.
misconceived	Badly or wrongly conceived.
misplacedverb	Lost; disoriented, put in the wrong place.
misparked	Badly or wrongly parked.
misbegottennoun	(obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
miscoined	coined badly or incorrectly (in any sense)
misbegun	begun badly or incorrectly
misaccumulated	wrongly accumulated
spoilt	Of food, that has deteriorated to the point of no longer being usable or edible.
misstowed	Stowed wrongly, incorrectly, or improperly.
misflung	Having been flung in error or ineptly.
prolifigate	Misspelling of profligate. [Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.]
misslanted	Improperly slanted (any sense).
straynoun	Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
malapplied	Applied badly.
wastenoun	Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
misintended	Aimed amiss or wrongly.