The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misapplying
Misapply \Mis`ap*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misapplied; p. pr. & vb. n. Misapplying.] To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Wiktionary
misapplying
vb. (present participle of misapply English)
Usage examples of "misapplying".
I may then too avoid the charge of misapplying that time which now belonging to those who employ me, should be wholly devoted to their service.
Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.
They had been caught misapplying the talent to one and ten-dollar bills, pasting one half of the tens to one half of the ones and passing them with the ten-dollar side up.