Misspend: alternatives and connections

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of t…

One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and with…

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly.

(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…

To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

To spend time aimlessly or lazily

A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so.

To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

Wrong; amiss.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, misc…