misused

Example Sentences

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In an article on “10 Commonly Misused Words,” the website gives the example of “proscribe” and “prescribe.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2021

The resulting project is The Misused, which the pair describe as “a geeky study in how to use metal hardware wrong”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2020

Here and there were off-colors: elegant Archaic Words, outlandish Loanwords, shabby Misused Words begging in the gutter, the jagged neon patterns of a popular Vulgar Slang cackling madly as they ran headlong.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2019

Misused if it’s a crutch or if, as the previous comment states, it reduces conversation to meaningless binaries.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2010

Misused good things have sometimes to be given up in order to keep people from temptation.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander