0 present participle of misapply
1 to use something badly, wrongly, or in a way that was not intended:
It will be impossible to recover all the misapplied charity money.
It is not surprising that subjects make errors by misapplying strategies that work for other tasks.
It unifies a valley by clear demarcation instead of confusing and depriving the citizens of the valley by splitting villages and misapplying scarce resources.
He said democratic parties are, "looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedy".
They are misapplying their intentions in this matter.
I am very much against misapplying this word "safety".
It is much more useful to prevent people from doing wrong, to prevent people from misapplying funds than to send them to prison afterwards for having misapplied funds.
The money is often used for irregular purposes, and at present there is nothing to, stop these bogus estate agents taking numerous deposits and misapplying them for their own purposes.
