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:
Did the department intentionally misapply the accounting rules?
The trader pleaded guilty to misapplying millions of dollars and falsifying records.
If young people are being let down in a particular area, if resources are being misapplied, we need to instigate action on their behalf.
They have almost grotesquely misapplied the whole concept of fairness repeatedly in many of their policies over the past two and a half years.
It unifies a valley by clear demarcation instead of confusing and depriving the citizens of the valley by splitting villages and misapplying scarce resources.
Even if it is not dangerous, the drugs can be misapplied or misdirected.
Dworkin urges that prior decisions misapplied the concept and therefore misapplied the law.
They will tend to misapply rules to themselves, particularly when the rule is formulated in pejorative language.
Primitive operations that may be misapplied are highlighted in red, while the rest are highlighted in green.
It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks.
