misemploy

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V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate. desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Do misemploy, misuse, and pervert apply to persons or things?

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

But the Scottish Solomon who was on the alert, added another law restraining its cultivation 'to misuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful Kingdom.'

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

To turn one of his colonels into my Spanish master would be seriously to misemploy his precious time.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

If any modern author had written this, our critics would have guessed he had learned from some of the Quakers to misemploy thee for thou.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold