misexpend
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misexpend (third-person singular simple present misexpends, present participle misexpending, simple past and past participle misexpended)
- (transitive) To expend badly or wrongly.
- 1664, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas, 6th edition, page 53:
- I have abused thy favours in the misexpending of my precious time, and have taken no delight in thy Sabbaths.