Misspent

It is very fitting that Mr. Frederic's last book should be in praise of action, the thing that makes the world go round; of force, however misspent, which is the sum of life as distinguished from the inertia of death. ❋ Willa Sibert Cather (1910)

And his talk, we are told, during the fortnight that preceded his death, was not regret for a life we should, in seriousness, call misspent, but because partridges and pheasants no longer suited his condition, and he was obliged to be reduced to boiled meats. ❋ Philip Wharton (1847)

In the early days of his England captaincy, John Terry often found himself wincing when asked to recall his misspent youth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan 'misspent' ❋ Unknown (2008)

The less PageRank points that will be "misspent" on low potential pages ❋ Scott Smigler (2010)

Because only Vallas would know how to turn a disaster (a federal audit forcing the district to return milions in "misspent" funds) into a public relations opportunity: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Republicans Conservatives in Canada cry fowl when $10 or $20 million is 'misspent' on the arts, but it's OK to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayers money to inept managers and businesses in the wake of the financial instability in the US (and that's spreading to normally stable countries like Canada and those in the EU). ❋ Unknown (2008)

"misspent" youth at the old Billiken Bowl on Stedman Street.

Prosecutions for sodomy declined sharply in the colonies in the eighteenth century, even as the population increased geometrically, and in the port cities during the American Revolution, little or no misspent seed was punished. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

As one stuck somewhere in between raising hell and amazing grace, I confess that I have been in way too many bars and bar fights in my misspent youth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A full 67 percent of money spent on an anti-AIDS program in Mauritania was misspent, the investigators told the fund's board of directors. ❋ AP (2011)

The fund is pulling or suspending grants from nations where corruption is found, and demanding recipients return millions of dollars of misspent money. ❋ AP (2011)

This was not to say that the money was misspent, but it was a totally unacceptable situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Repubs have already mismanaged CxP & misspent the funds they already received & seem to have a preferred interest in Texas & Alabama workforce, not so much the Florida Shuttle workforce. ❋ Unknown (2009)