misused
mɪsˈjuzd-
(adj)
misused
used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"
California workers misused $613,000 in taxpayer funds, report finds. latimes.com
MISUSE OF 911, HADCOCK ROAD: A woman called police at 4:25 am Nov 24 to report that a person had broken into her house and she had been able to trap the burglar in a box. cleveland.com
DJ Calvin Harris Says BBC Misused Interview Comments. hollywoodreporter.com
Just days after the former premier of one British-dependent territory was arrested on corruption allegations, another island leader has been nabbed, also accused of breaching the public's trust and misusing his office. hispanicbusiness.com
Misuse of collective bargaining . timesherald.com
To conduct an internal investigation into a city employee's allegations that the city's number 2 administrator has misused public resources and used intimidation and reprisals to squelch complaints . contracostatimes.com
Barbara Shanklin accused of misusing taxpayer money, position. lky.com
Misused photo makes them cringe . cherokeetribune.com
Founder Jordan Tobins, who was placed on leave earlier this year after Upper Crust 's co-owners accused him of misusing company funds, has expressed interested in buying back the pizza chain with new partners, according to his lawyer. boston.com
A southwestern Idaho jury considering a charge of felony misuse of public funds against former Canyon County Prosecutor John Bujak has opted to take Election Day off before returning to deliberations Wednesday. kivitv.com
CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Members of a southwestern Idaho jury decided they couldn't come to a unanimous decision on whether former Canyon County prosecutor John Bujak misused public funds. ktvz.com
Disgust at misuse of public office. newsday.com
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall said Wednesday some of the matters being investigated are potential fraud, forgery, misuse of state property and putting false information on state documents. newsobserver.com
Governor Pat Quinn has signed two bills designed to stop people from misusing parking placards for the disabled. glt.org
Former Laker Magic Johnson says that Mike D'Antoni has misused Pau Gasol, and that the coach's fast-paced offense isn't a good fit with Lakers' personnel. orlandosentinel.com
By misuse of language, we can interpret (2.10) as follows.
On a set of transformations of Gaussian random functions
We are unsure whether this is due to a bug inside this library or our misusing it — in either case, this is rather unsurprising given the complexity of current numerical packages.
On using floating-point computations to help an exact linear arithmetic decision procedure
Due to the nature of open access to all users, some people misuse it to spread fake news to achieve individual or political goals.
Algorithm and Implementation of the Blog-Post Supervision Process
Risks of possible misuse and biased citation and impact data.
Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank
Due to the frequent misuse of the word Riemannian to describe manifolds with metrics of any signature, we instead use Euclidean to describe manifolds with a positive-definite metric and Lorentzian for the usual signature of relativity.
Gravity and Signature Change
Such misuse of the voice is bound to show injurious results. "Resonance in Singing and Speaking" by
If, in such times, fair pictures have been misused, how much more fair realities? "Lectures on Art" by
Not I. Singular, the way you women misuse nouns. "The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)" by
Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! "A Christmas Carol" by
To waste it is folly; to misuse it, disaster. "The Joyful Heart" by
In Hannibal we seldom saw a slave misused; on the farm, never. "Chapters from My Autobiography" by
The misuse of these pronouns gives rise to more errors in speaking and writing than any other cause. "The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing" by
Certainly the experience of being loved prepares us to love, but we can misuse the gifts of love. "Herein is Love" by
The penalty for misused weeks, the reward for laborious months, may be determined within ten minutes. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864" by
You've terribly misused God's good gift of a pretty face, Rose. "The Village by the River" by
But yester morne to see;
When to his bowre he bare my love,
And sore misused mee.
Talent wasted and misused,
Earth adored and heaven forgotten,
Mercy slighted and refused.
Preparing destinies of rust;
Iron misused must turn to blight
And dwindle to a tetter'd crust.
Ye both to Men the noblest Gifts bestow.
Howe'er by Folly or by Vice abus'd,
Blessings are turn'd to Curses when misus'd.
'Whence comes this Girl, and how she came distrest.
'Wake her, and ask; for she is sorely bruis'd:
'I long to know by whom she's thus misus'd.
Thorns and pebbles bruise him, heat and cold annoy him;
Sting of insect maddens, snarl of beast affrights him;
Shade of forest saddens, breath of flowers delights him.