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Examples of misapply
misapply
I love it when people take a Scripture verse and misapply it in their ignorance.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Both are figments of modern nation states that misapply Hukm Sharii for various reasons.
From the guardian.co.uk
And if you misunderstand the behavior or misapply the principle, you may sink your business.
From the forbes.com
But there IS something wrong with us when we misapply them.
From the allconsidering.com
It is only slightly irrational to misapply a normally highly successful strategy to an uncommon problem.
From the newscientist.com
The specifics of this law are unwritten, however, and so each is likely to misapply it in his own case.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She and her council members are charged with conspiring to steal and misapply tribal funds from 2001 to 2004.
From the sacbee.com
The investigation revealed that PSE continued to misapply the Refusal of Service rules, despite earlier commission instructions on how to apply them.
From the thenewstribune.com
Do i think we've given the government far too much freedom to take taxes and misapply them to some very badly managed causes and agency functions?
From the economist.com
- Apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly; "The words are misapplied in this context"; "You are misapplying the name of this religious group"
- (misapplication) wrong use or application
- (misapplication) embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
- To apply incorrectly; to misuse
- (misapplied) Refers to the usage of a taxon name for an incorrect plant; such names are homonyms and also synonyms of the plants to which they truly describe.
- To apply, deliberately or otherwise, a name in a sense which is not correct under the provisions of the Code (e.g. in a manner not in accord with the name-bearing type).
