How to Use misspend in a Sentence

misspend

verb
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  • Several government officials have been accused of misspending public money.
  • If the money is lost or misspent, the ratepayer is on the hook for that.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In other words, the money was misplaced rather than misspent.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Oil-rich Libya, which has a government surplus, has years of missing and misspent funds.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The team is making enormous amounts of money - revenue that has been mostly misspent in recent years.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But the steady drip of investigations and misspending allegations and a shakeup at the top ranks of the NRA compelled him to alter his will.
    — Lisa Marie Pane, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2019
  • The emails detailed the dirty deeds and were sent en masse to top managers, some of whom were also accused of misspending money intended to fight Ebola in Congo.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • What's needed is a strategy that shames Congress, which sometimes seems beyond shame, for misspending the people's money.
    — Author: Cal Thomas | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Protect taxpayers from record high tax rates that get misspent in foreign wars of no strategic value to Americans.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Hunter, who resigned from Congress in January, is scheduled to be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to misspending his campaign funds.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Utah leaders misspend public funds, abandon Utah’s youth for fossil fuels.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But the risks are that industrial policies can misspend dollars that would be better directed by the private sector.
    — Josh Boak, ajc, 18 May 2021
  • The former director of the state's welfare agency pleaded guilty last year in a conspiracy to misspend the millions of dollars in the largest public corruption case in the state's history.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Schweikert is facing allegations of misspending by his campaign and his office.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Instead, Holcomb suggested lawmakers take up a loan Muncie schools need to get finances back in order after misspending bond dollars that were supposed to be used on capital projects and wait on the rest of the provisions.
    — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2018
  • The alleged offense: misspending public money by arriving late at a conference while on government business in the United States.
    — Richard Read, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
  • New revelations of misspending come as the emergency prep agency has faced scrutiny from Oregon's own auditors and upheaval in its upper ranks.
    — Allan Brettman, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Russia has spent and misspent a lot of its best manpower, a good deal of its armored force, and a fair amount of ammunition, special artillery ammunition, and a good deal of its park of conventional and precision-guided weapons.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Together the two helped shut down the Cancer Fund of America, an entity which misspent millions for the founder’s personal needs rather than charitable good in a 50-state investigation.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2017
  • Within months, Driscoll was making headlines again, this time because of her resignation from the Armed Forces Foundation amid allegations of misspending charity funds.
    — Morgan Cook, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • An independent company with a stake in a big Alaska oil discovery claimed in court that a former chief executive misspent its money by the millions, buying homes, flying friends around the world and financing a play in England.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Instead of discovering an inefficient bureaucracy that was misspending money, the panel reported that the agency lacked the money to achieve its enormous task.
    — Dan Weikel, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
  • Uresti said of Bates, who has been accused misspending investors’ money on exotic automobiles, trips, hotels and to pay personal expenses.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Last month, the ethics committee unanimously voted to create a special subcommittee to investigate Schweikert and Schwab for misspending and other issues.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 9 July 2018
  • Six people have been charged in what state and federal officials call a massive fraud scheme to misspend state welfare funds, including the former director of the state welfare agency, who is cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors.
    — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The independent analysis followed claims of misspending from each campaign, and each candidate maintains her respective travel was work-related.
    — NOLA.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Four company officials already have pleaded guilty, including Bates, who was accused of misspending investors’ money to support his lavish lifestyle and to pay child support and his son’s college tuition, among other expenses.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • That, combined with an excoriating inspector general report that found Dr. Shulkin misspent public funds on travel, eventually led to his ouster.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • To quell concerns about whether city officials could misspend the money, Hollywood commissioners agreed in December to appoint 15 residents to the oversight advisory committee.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 12 June 2019
  • The Orlando Housing Authority faces complaints from its former financial director, who says authority executives misspent federal housing funds on luncheons, events and vendors who did not go through the bid process for several years ending in 2011.
    — Mary Shanklin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 June 2017

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