misapplication

[ US /mɪˌsæpɫəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mɪsˌæplɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
  2. wrong use or application
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How To Use misapplication In A Sentence

  • Thekey of preventing acquired deafness was to prohibit the misapplication of ototoxic antibiotics.
  • The misapplication of "statistics" is simply scientism run-amok. You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Before the judge and before us there was some debate whether such a claim lies for breach of fiduciary duty generally or only those which also involve the misapplication of property.
  • The inquiry found evidence of serious misapplication of funds.
  • It is not only that they show little of Donne's subtlety of mind or 'hydroptic, immoderate thirst of human learning', but they want, what gives its interest to this subtle and fantastic misapplication of learning, —the complexity of mood, the range of personal feeling which lends such fullness of life to Donne's strange and troubled poetry. Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C
  • As said, the main theme is the conflict between ratio of science and the intolerance, misapplication of facts, glorification of ignorance and use of all these in propagation of fear and ever increasing control found in every culture known to man. Gardner Dozois (ed.) - Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science vs. Superstition (Book Review)
  • Nigerians know that when they hear stories of misapplication, misappropriation, or outright theft of public funds, it is they who are being defrauded and made to suffer the consequences.
  • In apparent contrast to pain, normal exteroception always involves the possibility of misperception, and thus miscategorization (that is, misapplication of concepts to the objects of exteroception). Pain
  • He believed that prosperity could only be guaranteed if the country retained the imperial connection, and maintained that the Union had failed it because of its misapplication and not because of its inherent erroneousness.
  • It's an excessive exercise of federal power based on a misapplication of federal law.
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