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  1. squandered, wastedadjective

    not used to good advantage

    "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

    Synonyms:
    superfluous, wasted, bony, haggard, atrophied, skeletal, cadaverous, emaciated, otiose, pointless, senseless, diminished, gaunt, purposeless, pinched

    Antonyms:
    found

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  1. List of paraphrases for "squandered":

    wasted, missed, dissipated

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#3907missed
#12442wasted
#17621skeletal
#17833diminished
#18270pointless
#31681haggard
#35057senseless
#35699superfluous
#40094bony
#45025pinched
#46430dissipated
#49528gaunt
#54883squandered
#89296emaciated
#148311purposeless
#149128atrophied
#194565cadaverous

How to use squandered in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Clyde:

    My question is, what does that have to do with the United States Postal Service? how much money has the Postal Service squandered on this program?

  2. Sean Penn:

    Only the U.S. constitution could sideline his presidency... As the administration that followed squandered the surplus with misguided wars, the devastation we face today would have been tempered today if he (Clinton) had continued as our commander in chief.

  3. Dejan Stojanovic:

    Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    I believe he probably would have won over a whole lot of people in the center and on the right, but he didn't. He moved in a different direction for whatever reason and I think his legacy will be squandered a bit because of that.

  5. Nancy Pelosi:

    The Speaker of the House has awesome power. I know that. I've been there, the fact, though, is that power is not to be squandered.


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