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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : noun mis-yoos; verb mis-yooz |
| Phonetic Transcription : noun mɪsˈyus; verb mɪsˈyuz |
Definition of misused
Origin :- late 14c., "to use improperly;" see mis- (1) + use (v.). Meaning "to subject to ill-treatment" is attested from 1530s. Related: Misused; misusing.
- verb abuse; apply wrongly
- The bread was genuine homemade, a term so often misused in the cities.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- Plotinus is a mystic, then, though not at all in the sense in which the term is often misused.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- The physicians do not like to touch a tool which has been misused so badly.
- Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- In speaking and in writing of stage matters, these words are often misused.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- The sense in which it is misused is that of immodest, indecent.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- The child singing-voice is not rough and harsh unless it is misused.
- Extract from : « The Child-Voice in Singing » by Francis E. Howard
- Do you see how he has misused me; has fettered me to the sick-bed?
- Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer
- Such a lot of college men seem to have misused their advantages.
- Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
- If misused the fault lies with the disciple, not with Nature.
- Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
- Bessie Madigan could not be got to admit that she had ever misused a word.
- Extract from : « The Madigans » by Miriam Michelson
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