Definitions for misspent

misspent mis·spent

Spelling: [mis-spent]
IPA: /mɪsˈspɛnt/

Misspent is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 287 anagrams from letters in misspent (eimnpsst).

Definitions for misspent

adjective

  1. spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted:

verb (used with object)

  1. to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.

Origin of misspent

1350-1400; Middle English. See mis-1, spend

Examples for misspent

Pierre lives over again in swift review years of a misspent past.

They talked, a little soberly, of thrift, and of their misspent years.

My time during the last three years will not have been misspent.

He remembered his misspent permission, and the thought of it nauseated him.

And in 2008, a U.S. official told The Guardian that as much as 70 percent of U.S. military aid had been “misspent.”

Had I the right to let her marry him when there lay behind him those misspent years?

I am in hopes, when you shall have read them, you will not think I have misspent your money for them.

With this sad story of a misspent and miserable life we have no more to do here.

I never pass that way now without thanking God for a misspent youth.

I misspent my youth, and used to get the chaps to do my exercises.

Word Value for misspent
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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