0 to use something badly, wrongly, or in a way that was not intended:
It will be impossible to recover all the misapplied charity money.
1 to use something in a way that is wrong or illegal:
The trader pleaded guilty to misapplying millions of dollars and falsifying records.
Did the department intentionally misapply the accounting rules?
This list excludes many other areas of research that are less easily distinguished but equally dangerous if misapplied.
At the very least, one could object that the notion of multiple passivization is misapplied here, as the formal similarity is plausibly regarded as concord.
Not only are secondary sources often over-used, they are frequently misapplied.
Alternatively, they may take the judgment to other authorities through the petitioning system (shangfang), and claim that the courts have misapplied the laws.
This means that purely ethical consistency arguments are often misapplied, because they assume a transitivity of moral acceptability that often is not there.
As with all psychiatric terms, personality disorder can be misapplied as a pejorative label.
This could be because the forms have been misapplied, and a synthesised organisation of the basic idea or pattern has not been achieved.
It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks.
