The side effects, if any - even when mistakenly applied - are mild.

The word crest is often mistakenly applied to a coat of arms.

My office's first press release mistakenly applied the 10 percent figure to the 10-year estimated surplus, rather than to 2002.

Many people mistakenly apply heat to an injured area.

But as a lawyer, Hillary mistakenly applies the right of refusal to politics, where trust is the key factor.

In other words, the machine's computer is mistakenly applying the partition ratio (see above) and multiplying the result.

He said they had also worked to make sure that people were not criminally charged for mistakenly applying for benefits.

Also, Faisal mistakenly applied too much of a certain facial sculpting cream he had been trying out.

While Tatum was unconscious, the doctor suffered a stroke and mistakenly applied the needle to his entire face.

Laid-back is an adjective commonly but mistakenly applied to much of the local population and certainly to these sybarites, as many call them.