Word: misspent
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...billion was misspent by the Indonesian government in 2001 and 2002, according to its Supreme Audit Agency...
...himself as an artist denied his due. The LSD therapy he began in 1966 apparently did not do much to make him more congenial. It's no surprise that at his death he had posted in his apartment an old obituary of Orson Welles, the patron saint of misspent genius...
...cells and cigs are both carcinogenic. In the same way that, in 1954, cigarette companies formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to scrutinize the effects of cigarettes, so now are wireless companies commissioning similar studies on cell phones. Just as a hacking cough is today the sign of a misspent, rebellious youth, so will that tell-tale tumor behind your neck a half-century from now be the sign of a college career spent huddled outside the brick-and-ivy, talking loudly into your cell phone to be heard over the din of everyone else doing the same...
...president have not been realized. Bush should, as I am sure all would agree, be judged as harshly as any other president. In the wake of the apparent amorality of the Clinton years, Bush’s campaign stressed his piety and moral rectitude in the wake of a misspent youth...
...that fast-walking rhythm so often used by the Man in Black, and presages by many years his hits about Folsom and San Quentin prisons. (Of course, I'll always forgive Cash for such lapses because of his oft-quoted quote about Jones, with whom he spent many a misspent mile on the road in their early careers: "Who's your favorite singer?" Cash is asked. "You mean," he responds, "apart from George Jones...