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
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
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
All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they can not misemploy it.
From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart
I do not mean to misemploy much of your time, which I know is always passed in good works, and usefully.
From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
