misapply

He was arrested in May 1910 for misapplying city funds.

Many people felt that this idea of fidelity was misapplied to sexual life.

But history also suggests that retaliation misapplied can start a commercial war.

In this argument, as is so often the case, the lessons of military history are being misapplied by both sides.

It's hard, though, to see them as anything but laziness when they're misapplied.

In some manner he had misapplied the power of the amulet.

You know, we've seen so many examples over the years of really good technology being misapplied, and the bad guys just slip right around it.

He never denied the charges but argued that the law was misapplied in his case.

The term is also often misapplied to refer to any antique key.

I would rather say a principle is being misapplied.

But in the sham group, the coil was misapplied and had no effect.

Instead, he led a low heart, misapplying a lesson from his teacher, who happened to be Munson.

He said the circuit court had misapplied the Federal rules on impartiality.

Amendment opponents acknowledged that some state and local officials had misapplied the law.

Occasionally the word "tell" is misapplied to a site whose form does not warrant the designation.

But they don't want to see it misapplied, do they?

So misapplied the term loses any useful precision of meaning.

Many have misunderstood and misapplied this Shakespearean phrase in the same way.

Defenders of the law say that while it may be misapplied sometimes, it is a sound approach.

Its rather narrow but important application is often misapplied or misunderstood by tax protesters.

The term is commonly misapplied to almost any case in which a battery appears to hold less charge than was expected.

It was just misapplied when it left the surface of this planet.

We regret to say that the President's hospitality on this occasion was in some measure misapplied.

"Not only are they rewriting or misapplying their own rules, but also life's lessons.

But the logic is misapplied; the science often bogus.