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misspent

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1. misspent - Adjective

2. misspent - Verb

Derived from misspend

Meaning

of Misspend

imp. & p. p. of Misspend.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. Anita Brookner

I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. Neil Gaiman

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide. Kay Redfield Jamison

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last. Thomas Ken

I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like It were going on. I have misspent my days. When I think of all those hours I flung away in reading Henry James and Santayana, when I might have been reading of life, throbbing, beating, perfumed life, I practically break down. Elinor Glyn

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