Adjective : misspent youth. From Dictionary.com.
In the early days of his England captaincy, John Terry often found himself wincing when asked to recall his misspent youth. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan 'misspent'. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Up to 70% of US aid to Pakistan 'misspent'] Reference
The less PageRank points that will be "misspent" on low potential pages. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Young Philly Politics - Comments] Reference
"misspent" youth at the old Billiken Bowl on Stedman Street. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pierre lives over again in swift review years of a misspent past. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Is any time misspent in trying to discover a non-existing relation?. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
In many ways his was a misspent life "at once unfinished and a ruin.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Did they hear anything to ease fears that their money is being misspent?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2009] Reference
BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The sign of a misspent youth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 13, 2008] Reference
Here, then, I am to-day, very near the end of my most wretched and misspent life. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
The department hasn't helped itself because the money it's gotten it has misspent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2006] Reference
The first was misspent obscene extravagances which you've witnessed in the palaces. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2003] Reference
The following day's journey, was one that few can take, and deem their time misspent. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Today my digestive apparatus is slumped and I feel like the ragged edge of a misspent career. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
Under sentence of death they all testified great sorrow for the offences of their misspent lives. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
If only she could have those times all over again, or even one of those times so recklessly misspent!. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
This may appear for us a toilsome task, but if the reader be not fatigued also, our time will not be misspent. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829] Reference
As happens too frequently on Capitol Hill, this was a case of time, energy, and talent substantially misspent. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam: Converting Unemployment Benefits to Employment Benefits] Reference
CHETRY: And a government report says billions of taxpayer dollars have been misspent in the rebuilding of Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009] Reference
Dogmas, inspired by popular superstition and perfected by misspent intelligence, have repeatedly been imposed on a. From Wordnik.com. [Statement on Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
Aaron Logan, "get on that extension and listen to the story of a misspent life, for I'll try to get him to tell it.". From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
A new investigation is finding that the Homeland Security Department misspent billions of dollars in private contracts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2006] Reference
And for me -- I'm not that presoomtious to think I can square up a misspent life as a man might compound wi's creditors. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
The audit paints a very ugly pictures of just how taxpayer money was misspent in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2006] Reference
In these difficult economic times every dollar not spent saving a life or preventing a new infection is a dollar misspent. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Tom Coburn: Bill Clinton Was Right About Wasted HIV/AIDS Funding] Reference
Only on this one day did Green Valley remember the man whose death was the one and only worth while deed of a misspent life. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
The reason the money was originally in an overseas account, he has said, was to protect it from being misspent by Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [Following The Money] Reference
Surely, few things in the course of a misspent life are less profitable than such over-strained efforts at showy entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Etiquette] Reference
New revelations tonight on how chunks of Katrina relief money -- and we're talking about millions of dollars -- have been misspent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2006] Reference
In the coming years she will look back upon these moments with real pride, or regret, according to how she spent, or misspent them. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
And we've heard him tell the story about his misspent childhood, you know, some things he did as a teenager that he is not proud of. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2008] Reference
Ned Taylor's misspent life came to an end a few weeks after his confession to Thomas Bradly of his connection with the awful death of. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
I further considered that by my irregular way of living I had wretchedly misspent my time which is the most valuable thing in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference
And so I've said before -- I know Joe emphasized this to you earlier -- if we see money being misspent, we're going to put a stop to it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2009] Reference
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