Difference between abuse and miscall
Definitions
noun
- a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
- improper or excessive use
- cruel or inhumane treatment
verb
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
- use foul or abusive language towards
- treat badly
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively
Examples
He said this was an abuse of public monies and the fact there was no contribution from the business community was ‘grossly unfair.’
So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
Definitions
verb
- assign in incorrect name to
Examples
And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality.
They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense: --
Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled.
