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third-person singular simple present misspends, present participle misspending, simple past and past participle misspent
To spend poorly, incorrectly or unwisely. quotations examples
Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling