What is "misuse"

Usage examples of "misuse".

Ford found most disturbing was the way that the misuse of antiobiotics accelerated the spread of bacterial resistance.

I suspected him of possessing supernatural powers, at least as regards his ability to ferret out my misdeeds, I perceived him at the time to be an inwardly directed soul who felt misused by the world and whose only interests, apart from the circus, were a love of books and calligraphy.

It was simply accepted that Starfleet personnel who had earned the opportunity to serve on a starship were among the most loyal and balanced the system could produce, so why spend time and engineering effort preventing such people from misusing controls when they would never choose to do so in any case?

Traditional Bardic immunity can lead to some misusing their power, and Bards have no one making sure they behave themselves the way the Healers and you Heralds do.

He could not risk causing the rest of the lord-governors to align against him if they perceived him misusing his powers toward one of their own.

The charges against President Nixon included paying off witnesses to silence them or influence their testimony, misusing the Internal Revenue Service to obtain the tax records of private citizens, directing the FBI and the Secret Service to spy on Americans and maintaining a secret investigative unit within the Office of the President.

But our minds have a hard enough time adjusting to a slower pace when they are so conditioned to misusing time.

Mother Shippey was a gargoyle sculptured by poverty and misuse into a posturing, painted, overdressed bundle still trying to look young.

Give me the ring, with which you bound the snowcat, so that you cannot misuse such power again.

The ordinance also calls for independent audits, and allows taxpayers to sue if the park funds are misused or ripped off.

Here we come clodhopping in, intending to misuse her for our egotistic goals.

Her brand of sexual isolationism is far gentler than the extremist doctrine I depict, which shamefully misuses her name on planet Stratos.

But it was not the bigamy that distressed him, for many traders had an Indian wife on the prairies to complement the white one back in Saint Louis, but rather the harsh misuse of a young girl.

She allows spirits like you to control her body, so you must not misuse it.

The Dutch-style row houses had been chopped into pieces and misused as rooming houses for men with hot plates and ashtrays and racing forms, or floor-through apartments, where sprawling families of cousins were crammed into each level, their yards and stoops teeming with uncountable children.