What is "misusing"

Usage examples of "misusing".

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.