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misspend

 verb
     
mis‧spend past tense and past participle misspent [transitive]
1

misspent youth

SSY someone who had a misspent youth wasted their time or behaved badly when they were young - often used humorously
2 to use time or money badly or wrongly:
Carey admitted misspending company funds.
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