What's the difference between misspelt and misspent?
Misspelt
Definition:
() of Misspell
Example Sentences:
(1) She had been enraged by a handwritten letter from Brown which misspelt her name, and appeared to contain numerous other spelling errors.
(2) And the misspelt banners of news are often exciting, but other channels catch up fast.
(3) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
(4) When the paperwork was returned, his name was misspelt.
(5) Nonetheless, Bin Laden was now on the radar of security services, albeit if his name was often misspelt and his role described as "financier".
(6) Today the Sun is embroiled in a new row with Downing Street after publishing the transcript of a phone call Brown made to Jacqui Janes, the mother of a British soldier who died in Afghanistan last month, trying to placate her over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.
(7) Photograph: Photograph: Egyptian ministry of antiquities A misspelt version of the forgotten king's name has been found once before, but Wegner said this was the first time the team had heard of the pharaoh.
(8) In the original, James Moorehead's name was misspelt.
(9) The first, obviously, is whether that "Butt…" is a misspelt preposition at the beginning of an uncompleted sentence or a reference to this nation's one-time leader's backside.
(10) You'll still have autocomplete (to turn 'new hand on deck' to ' new Han on deck ') but now there's no excuses for misspelt emails.
(11) Earlier this week the Sun misspelt Janes's surname as "Jones" in an online article on the My Sun section of the newspaper's website.
(12) Name me one red-blooded man who wouldn't want to validate his neediness by paying a stranger of undetermined gender to send him hollow, misspelt platitudes on the internet.
(13) He also described a family holiday on one of its best-known beaches, but misspelt the name: he enjoyed “holidays on the coast at Holcombe”.
(14) Their Chinese-made shoulder badges, it was recently noticed after five years, misspelt Oregon as Oregdn.
(15) What he says may be unhinged, misspelt and ungrammatical, and it may make many recoil, but by claiming his is a “real” voice, where all else is mediated and therefore distorted, is working for him strategically.
(16) The phone call – as described by Brown – took place after the Sun printed a story about the death of a soldier and his mother's complaints that a handwritten letter of condolence from the then prime minister misspelt her son's name.
(17) The Sun's new political editor is said to have remonstrated with his editors on Sunday over whether to go hard on the prime minister's misspelt letter to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
(18) Clearly nothing important is happening in the UK today, as Twitter splutters into life amid mock outrage or fully fledged mirth over Ed Miliband's misspelt Blockbusters tweet.
(19) Netjes was not initially thought to be involved in the case because her name was misspelt on the charge-sheet, and because she has never worked for al-Jazeera.
(20) Gordon Brown was drawn into a politically embarrassing argument over equipment shortages in Afghanistan as he tried to placate the mother of a dead serviceman over his handwritten letter of condolence that misspelt her name.
Misspent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Misspend
() imp. & p. p. of Misspend.
Example Sentences:
(1) * - if you didn't enjoy a misspent youth, that means you win £5 for every £4 you bet, plus the £4 stake back Updated at 11.57am BST 11.31am BST Regulators warn EU bankers not to dodge bonus cap London still plays host to many more rich bankers than other EU cities.
(2) The Liberal Democrats have launched an official inquiry into the disastrous Yes to AV campaign, examining how money was misspent, staff demoralised and political capital misplaced in what campaign staff have described as a "living nightmare".
(3) It reminded me of my misspent youth: we were touring the world, and much of that time passed in a haze.
(4) It was partly to relieve this idea that I turned what had been pleasure into work – in the same way, probably, that some snooker players become professionals to make up for their misspent childhood.
(5) Nega believes it is misspent : “The west has left us, left the people.
(6) Boozy melon In my misspent student youth, we would buy a large watermelon and "fill" it with vodka.
(7) Unfortunately, there is mounting evidence that a significant proportion of our health care resources are being misspent on the unnecessary and inappropriate hospitalization of children and youths in psychiatric and substance abuse treatment programs.
(8) On Tuesday, Miyazawa was tapped to replace industry minister Yuko Obuchi, who stepped down over claims she misspent political funds, while the justice minister, Midori Matsushima, also quit after days of allegations that she had misspent money in what opponents insisted was an attempt to buy votes.
(9) In My Misspent Youth , Daum admits that her stories are "all about the way intense life experiences take on the qualities of scenes from movies.
(10) There will be stories about money misspent and occasional glimpses of profligacy.
(11) On closer reading, it seems that Murray’s real beef was that these were not “the secret confessions of women down on their luck, lamenting lives woefully misspent, or perhaps a cathartic unburdening.
(12) Auditing the auditors The commission also demands refunds when it decides money has been misspent.
(13) Only one of the plays, The Merry Wives of Windsor , is set in anything resembling the Britain he knew; although myriad glimpses creep in elsewhere, what is striking is how diffuse and remote they are, optical puzzles seen at a distance: beery hints of Elizabethan drinking holes in the Henry IV plays; whiffs of the Jacobean stews in the problem comedies; the odd moment that winks at life in Stratford, but never too directly (my favourite is in his early poem "Venus and Adonis" , which with its primrose banks and "timorous flying hare" testifies that the poet's rural youth wasn't entirely misspent).
(14) "She knew that I'd grown up here and I told her about my misspent youth and I said I was trying to make up for it now," she said.
(15) Paul Ryan, the Republican pick for vice-president in 2012, said about Medicaid and food stamps that year: “We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency.” It is remarkable that such language is not being used about cash payments that could be misspent but about programmes to provide food and medicine to poor people in the world’s richest economy.
(16) The Austin American-Statesman reported that officials issued subpoenas in an investigation related to suspicions of misspent Medicaid funds.