misexpenditure

This is utter arrogance, utter nonsense, and a total misexpenditure of the American taxpayer.

The Dangers Of The Proposal Of The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service To Introduce Grizzly Bears Into Idaho 1997

In short, each trade considers the world as living for it, not it as living for the world -- a mistake so monstrous, that there is little reason to wonder at the enormous misexpenditure to which it gives rise.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 Various 1836