Sentence example with the word 'misapplication'

misapplication

aberrancy, corrupt administration, embezzlement, faultiness, jesuitism, misappropriation, mishandling, misusage, plausibility, sophistication, untruth

Definition n. wrong use or application

Last update: September 7, 2015


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It is a case of misapplication of law.   [Please select]

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John of Gaunt called a council on the 16th of October to impeach Wykeham on articles which alleged misapplication of the revenues, oppressive fines on the leaders of the free companies, taking bribes for the release of the royal French prisoners, especially of the duke of Bourbon, who helped to make him bishop, failing to send relief to Ponthieu and making illegal profits by buying up crown debts cheap. He was condemned on one only, that of halving a fine of 80 paid by Sir John Grey of Rotherfield for licence to alienate lands, and tampering with the rolls of chancery to conceal the transaction.   [Please select]

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Thus all errors of subreptio--of misapplication, are to be ascribed to defects of judgement, and not to understanding or reason.   [Please select]

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This is another instance of the misapplication of this Arabic term, which means exclusively a Christian priest.   [Please select]

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However, the glorious achievements of modern chemistry have not lost anything by this misapplication of a trade term.   [Please select]

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The misapplication of the reasoning powers is the same in both.   [Please select]

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It is evident that none of the absurdities I met with in this visit proceeded from an ill intention, but from a wrong judgment of complaisance, and a misapplication in the rules of it.   [Please select]

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In these days, unhappily, the news of battle is familiar to us, but every shock and every charge is an application or misapplication of the mechanical force of the sun.   [Please select]

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