misemploy

Example Sentences

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Yet, bred in errors, thou dost misemploy That strength heaven gave thee, and its flock destroy.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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

You will not only misemploy your time for the present, but impede your power for the future.'

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

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