misenforce

Verb

misenforce (third-person singular simple present misenforces, present participle misenforcing, simple past and past participle misenforced)

1. To enforce incorrectly.
   • But exactly in proportion to his lofty estimate of law, when thus enforced and applied, he is indignant and jealous at any attempt to wrest or misenforce it:1864, Samuel Neil, “Forensic Eloquence”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 330
   • Few legislators dare run for office on a platform proposing a solution; they know they would be powerless to accomplish anything if elected; someone else would misenforce the law.1935, The Commonwealth - Volumes 11-12, page 152