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Misspend   /mɪsspˈɛnd/  /mɪspˈɛnd/   Listen
Misspend

verb
(past & past part. misspent; pres. part. misspending)
1.
Spend time badly or unwisely.
2.
Spend (money or other resources) unwisely.






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"Misspend" Quotes from Famous Books



... fragments of time that remain before Advent. Do not put off making resolutions, or giving up bad habits, till next Sunday. We know not how few fragments of our life remain. As says a Bishop of our Church, "they who dare lose a day are prodigals, but those who dare misspend it are desperate. Time is the seed of eternity, the less that remains the more valuable it becomes. To squander time is to squander all." The events of one brief day have often influenced a whole life, aye, a whole eternity. The flight of ...
— The Life of Duty, v. 2 - A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles • H. J. Wilmot-Buxton



Words linked to "Misspend" :   drop, spend, expend



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