ill-spent

Your money may be ill spent, your charity misapplied, but your piety never.

Those to whom it is due have advanced the money; and whether it was well or ill spent, or pocketed, is not their crime.

He looked as though he bore on his bent shoulders the weight of all the ill-spent lives in Christendom.

Consider on the contrary how sad the review of ill-spent time is, and how you will wish you had spent it when it is gone.

Pauperism runs in the same ruts in New York as in Pennsylvania, and the motive power is the same—ill-spent money.