misemploy

Example Sentences

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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

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

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.

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