misapplied
Verb
The word is derived from misapply
Meaning
of Misapply
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Examples
After the game, Olivet filed a protest with the conference commissioner, claiming that officials had misapplied the way in which videotape may be used.
He said a meeting by the house business committee had unanimously agreed that the court erred, misdirected and misapplied the Constitution.
Equally crucial but often overlooked or misapplied is the dimension of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of linguistic description.
In my judgment the so-called Frye test has been misapplied in this case.
In it, she admitted that she “knowingly and willfully embezzled, abstracted, purloined or willfully misapplied money, funds or credits of such credit unions,” in violation of federal law.
The pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles attended the first performance, and wrote about the work: "In the case of how many compositions is the word "new" misapplied!