ill-use

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Also driving Zcash’s surge: receding fears that U.S. regulators will take issue with the coin’s privacy features, which some worry could be exploited for ill use.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Among the most heartbreaking examples of census work put to ill use was when the federal government broke its promise never to use census data against its citizens.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

Putting John to such ill use here only underscores how in searching for depth, Gaga has actually flattened many of her appealing dimensions on “Chromatica.”

From New York Times • May 29, 2020

"But in the '70s there was an awareness of the historical ill use of that word, and that was a real consciousness shift."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2015

I shall here add a Remark, which I am afraid our Tragick Writers may make an ill use of.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph