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• The oft misused word didn't mean what he thought it meant, but everyone else misunderstood it too.From the entry misused
• Years of misuse have dulled the tools.From the entry dull
• They look at the newest gadget or algorithm and see how it can be misused and abused.2022 February 3, Rick Dakan, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry punk
• This barrier is rooted in the fear that data will be mishandled, misused, or misshared.2022, François Candelon, Martin Reeves, The Rise of AI-Powered Companies. From the entry misshare
• The Mahatma Phule auditorium also has been misused during the lockdown.2021 November 22, “PMC auditoriums in a state of total neglect”, in Hindustan Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2021. From the entry alchohol
• The misuse of multiple accounts is considered a serious breach of community trust.2016, Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, quoting Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry, Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge…. From the entry sockmaster
• When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.2013, Daniel Potter, Jennifer Hanin, What to Do When You Can't Get Pregnant. From the entry mispromote
• "Яussia" - what other languages misuse letters associated with a particular society?2010 May 7, Selenolycus, “Archived copy”, in r/linguistics, Reddit, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2026. From the entry Я
• Most of the overfishings in the international sense are a product of misuse.1975, Northwest Mariculture Laws: Papers and Presentations..., page 22. From the entry overfishing
• Like each of these devices, it can be well used or misused.1974, Theodore R[yland] Sizer, “Foreword”, in Allan B. Ellis, The Use & Misuse of Computers in Education, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book…. From the entry abacus
• They aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain.2016 September 13, Regoli, John D. Hewitt, Anna E. Kosloski, Exploring Criminal Justice, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry grass-eater
• Sometimes we misuse words or mis-feel feelings.2015, Marianne Nana Betts, the Edge of Marbles: from the Ground Up. From the entry misfeel
• They spoke in “Buckleyesque syllogisms,” misused big words, and highlighted their points with “a Buckleyesque protrusion of the tongue.”2014, Grace Elizabeth Hale, A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America, →ISBN, page…. From the entry Buckleyesque
• They wanted to denounce the raids as a cruel misuse of crime-fighting resources — fishing for minnows instead of sharky predators.2009 March 19, Lawrence Downes, “Notes From the Immigration Battlefield”, in The New York Times. From the entry sharky
• What is this ancient method and can it be misused?2009, Jasmuheen, Divine Radiance - on the Road with the Masters of Magic, →ISBN, page 294. From the entry check-out time
• The most common misuses of e-mail are fakemail and spam.2001, Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime, page 451. From the entry fakemail
• Traditional grammarians often refer to such a set as a "tense", but this is a misuse of the term 'tense'.1997, R. L. Trask, A Student's Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry screeve
• In patients misusing the drug because of helminthophobia, the risk of severe side effects has to be considered.1987, Lars L. Gustafsson, Björn Beermann, Yakoub Aden Abdi, Handbook of drugs for tropical parasitic infections, page 52. From the entry helminthophobia
• It is our opinion that this missharpening and thus consequent misuse would be the basic and primary source of the failure.1981, Charles O. Smith, Products Liability: Are You Vulnerable?, page 128. From the entry missharpen
• There, at any rate, he could go, too, and give back that gift of life he had so blackly misused.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry blackly
• The word “saudade” is being quite misused for what looks like to be a need for adding romantic foreignness to a story or an article.2019 January 30, Naty, “Dear gringos, the Portuguese word “Saudade” doesn’t mean what you make it sound like”, in Naty's Bookshelf. From the entry foreignness
• Whether they're acts of clickbaiting or dumbness, internet headlines routinely mischaracterize quotes, inaccurately paraphrase statements, and misuse specific terms, all to make readers click.2015, How to Write About Music, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry clickbait
• It is very easy to misuse the balling gun and cause a serious "choke" in the horse or damage to the back of the throat.2006, T. A. Landers, Professional Care of the Racehorse, page 253. From the entry balling gun
• This is actually a safety measure because if the wish-fulfilling mantras were easily chanted, there would no doubt be many people who would misuse them.2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408. From the entry wish-fulfilling
• Misuse has been noted in China.2002, Richard Lawrence Miller, The Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs, Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 157–158. From the entry elephant juice
• It is an excellent question, because misusing these important pieces of terminal tackle is one of the most common mistakes in freshwater fishing.2000, Field & Stream, volume 104, number 10, page 79. From the entry snap swivel
• "Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn?1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 36. From the entry works
• The whole problem of cosmetic surgery has in the past had a rather unfavorable light cast upon it because it has been misused and mispublicized.1954, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, page 633. From the entry mispublicize
• If the amnesty becomes law as expected this month or in June, it promises to extinguish the charges Puigdemont faces of disobedience and misuse of public funds.2024 May 11, Barney Jopson, “Catalonia separatist deal tested at ballot box”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry extinguish
• Tara flour is a recent example, but the misuse of the GRAS standard — and the delay in FDA response — has been occurring for decades, critics say.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN. From the entry GRAS
• When Biden takes the presidential oath in January, many will write articles scolding those who expressed concern about a coup as worrywarts, or as people misusing terminology.2020 December 7, Zeynep Tufekci, “‘This Must Be Your First’”, in The Atlantic. From the entry worrywart
• Both Diana and Sydney had over-focused on some features to the exclusion of others, causing them to misgather and misuse the “data” they had about their lovers.2016, Suzanna Mathews, Revising Mrs. Robinson. From the entry misgather
• Moreover, due to the failure to distinguish Yin from Yang, many TCM pharmacologists misjudge Yang deficiency syndrome and have misused cold-natured drugs for a long period of time.2014, Xutian Stevenson, Tai Shusheng, Yuan Chun-su, Handbook Of Traditional Chinese Medicine, →ISBN, page 1287. From the entry cold-natured
• But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page…. From the entry abuse
• As understandable as his annoyance about this malign misuse of his sketch may be, both ways of interpreting his caricature remain open, one being undeniably germanophobic.2006, Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann, Cultural Studies in the EFL Classroom, page 162. From the entry germanophobic
• If there were a way to ensure that the nonlazy persons would not misuse this facility, I would be in favor of car parks being reserved for the lazy.2000, Kaushik Basu, Prelude to political economy. From the entry nonlazy
• The sloyd knife, Fig. 84, is a tool likely to be misused in the hands of small children, but when sharp and in strong hands, has many valuable uses.1910, William Noyes, Handwork in Wood, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007. From the entry sloyd

Meaning of misuse

1. noun An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
2. verb To use (something) incorrectly.
3. verb To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).

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How do you use misuse in a sentence?

Misuse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The oft misused word didn't mean what he thought it meant, but everyone else misunderstood it too.”

What is a short sentence with misuse?

“Misuse has been noted in China.”

What does misuse mean?

Misuse means an incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.