misspend
/mɪsˈspɛnd
/verb (past and past participle misspent /mɪsˈspɛnt/) [with object] (usually as adjective misspent)
Spend (one’s time or money) foolishly, wrongly, or wastefully: perhaps I am atoning for my misspent youth...
- Sunday's piece highlighted court-appointed guardians who failed to file required reports on their clients or misspent clients' money.
- In June, EU ministers argued that misspent money should be paid back within eight years - hardly an onerous deadline.
- When it was exposed that he had misspent taxpayer's money, he promptly resigned.
Synonyms
wasted, dissipated, squandered, thrown away, frittered away, prodigal, misused, misapplied, irregular;
idle, profitless, unprofitable
Rhymes
- on the one (or the other) hand
- on the order of
- on the (or its) way
- on the (or one's) way
- on the (or one's) way out
- on the other hand
- on the outer
- on the outside
- on the outside looking in
- on the part of (or on my, their, etc., part)
- on the phone
- on the pig's back
- on the plus side
- on the port (or starboard) tack
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the quiet
- on the rack
- on the rails
- on the rebound
- on the right (or wrong) track
- on the right side of
- on the rise
- on the road
- on the rocks