ill-spent

Definitions

Examples

• As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

• Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

• Humans spent a long time domesticating cattle, and what they were trying to do, in essence, was de-domesticate them.

• They had rarely seen their own fathers carry small children unless their mothers were ill.

• I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying.

• These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.

• Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

• And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

• He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?

• G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.