The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misemploy \Mis`em*ploy"\, v. t. To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.
Their frugal father's gains they misemploy.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To employ incorrectly; to misuse.
Usage examples of "misemploy".
The regrets of a prince, for having lost a day, were noble and generous: but had he intended to have spent it in acts of generosity to his greedy courtiers, it was better lost than misemployed after that manner.
For that matter, I had once remarked to Kubilai that I thought most of his ministers were misemployed, and that word could have got back to them, and every single one of them might be mortally peeved at me.
I perceived that indeed their time had not been misemployed, for the whole bottom of the larger boat was heaped with fish--the small and delicate green perch, the cat-fish, hideous in its natural, but most delicious in its artificial shape, and, above all, the large and broad-backed yellow bass, from two to four pounds weight.