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Wrong use or application
Answer for the clue "Wrong use or application ", 14 letters:
misapplication
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Word definitions for misapplication in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misapplication \Mis*ap`pli*ca"tion\, n. A wrong application. --Sir T. Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from mis- (1) + application .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wrong use or application the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement , peculation , defalcation , misappropriation ]
Usage examples of misapplication.
The tendency of their present education--a misapplication of the word--must be counteracted.
Nor is it the poetical faculty itself, or any misapplication of it, to which this want of harmony is to be imputed.
The possibilities of misapplication of the results of brain science are already frightening to many people.
It is too many people, and the misapplication of technology through ignorance or greed.
On the misapplication of the procedures and the role of OIPR, see Bellows Report, pp.
It is a misapplication of his powers, which it also cripples, and teases away his hearers.
Perhaps she had the HI genes and there had been a mistake in the original specimen, a mix-up perhaps, or bad reagents, misapplication of current to the electrophoresis column: any sort of thing like that.
Though it knew its Prime rationality was still dominant, after all it was a misapplication of resources to let so many motiles waste away.
This is an injustice, considering all those who, sometimes at considerable personal peril, have spoken out against their own countries' misapplications of science and technology.
He knew that grave misapplications had occurred, but he could not easily penetrate to the specific defalcation, and until he could do so, he had no case, and he knew it.
Tully's output made no sense at all, misapplications or coded applications of vocabulary driving the translator to lunacy.
It was perhaps a misapplication of regulations, which, if challenged, would give rise to a debate on interpretation of authority and order priority versus personal judgment.