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• v  apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly
• v  change the inherent purpose or function of something
  The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers
• a  used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose
  misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents

• Iraq has a clear case that under this past inspection regime unfortunately it was misused for purposes other than set out by the Security Council resolution.
• Sarah Woodruff is an enigmatic local governess, said to be pining for a French soldier who has misused her.
• Waxman likes to point out that the House took 140 hours of sworn testimony to get to the bottom of whether Clinton had misused the White House Christmas-card list for political .

• misapply
• misuse
• pervert
• abuse

• used

News & Articles

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• U.S. sues pension trustees of Revstone subsidiaries; company seeks permission to sell auto parts subsidiary for $54.4M
  Hazel Bradford Pensions & Investments - The Department of Labor is suing pension trustees of two subsidiaries of Southfield-based Revstone Industries LLC and an investment adviser to recover $4.9 million in defined benefit plan assets that the agency claims were misused. Meanwhile, Revstone reportedly has received a $54.4 million offer from a Shiloh Industries Inc. subsidiary for its auto parts ...
  June 13, 2013 - Crain's Detroit Business
• Police Investigating Claims of Theft, Official Misconduct
  LEXINGTON, Tenn.- Lexington police confirmed they are investigating two of the city's aldermen after a complaint the pair misused city equipment and property.
  June 13, 2013 - WBBJ TV
• Decision expected on Gessler ethics complaint
  A Colorado ethics panel is expected to rule whether Republican Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler misused state funds for political events.
  June 13, 2013 - KGWN-TV Cheyenne

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Bloomberg
  Bush "took the authority that I and others gave him and he misused it, and I regret that deeply," Clinton said in Davenport. "He went with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy."
• President Bush in Baltimore Sun
  Bush praised the bill for protecting "our citizens from having genetic information misused."
• Sir Alex Ferguson in The Guardian
  We talk about world-class playersand I think that's a misused quote a lot of the time but, when you see his performances of late, you know you're talking about a really world-class player,Ferguson said. "I always said to him that to be a...