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How to use misapplied in a sentence

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If a bad law is written, or a good law is misapplied, and we know about it, we can change that.
However, we found no evidence that the funds of the Appeal were misapplied.
The basis of this therapy is that patterns of coping behaviour learned in one setting are then misapplied in changed circumstances.
There are claims that when provinces receive the money they do not disburse it immediately, the funds are misapplied.
The point is that in this case the Inspector misunderstood it and misapplied it considering its role in his decision letter.
These provisions are regularly misunderstood or deliberately misapplied by the police.
In the United States a law against mob racketeers has been misapplied in all sorts of spheres, including throughout the securities industry.
Thousands of people have been wrongly refused help with the costs of care because authorities have misapplied the means tests.
One customer would defect if you misapplied his herbicide, while another understands that everyone makes mistakes.
The best known contemporary statement on the subject is Andy Warhol's, but it is routinely misapplied.
Moreover, it is claimed that the defendant misapplied the private vendor test.
Therefore, if misapplied, the law could allow a political association to discriminate on the basis of religion or language.
This has been one of the most misunderstood and misapplied safety provisions our members have had to deal with.
But if Mr Cameron returns to Downing Street, it could seem tragically misapplied.
Epp's acknowledgment of the problems caused by the U. S. feticide laws means that he recognizes that such laws can be misapplied to punish women.
Despite his courtly manner in private, which so charmed Ms Albright, the mantle of statesman seems misapplied for the old curmudgeon.
Though sometimes misapplied or overprolonged, it helped bridge the gap between tribal systems and the new movements toward democracy and unity.
Finally, the term homomorphic, as used in the key to the Tectariaceae, is misapplied and should be replaced with monomorphic.
Significantly, the founders of re-engineering accept many of these charges, though they blame cack-handed consultants who, they say, misunderstood and misapplied their ideas.
Growth theory, particularly the Harrod Domar growth equation, has been frequently applied or misapplied to the economic planning of a developing country.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Could it be that Burleigh stood in need of all this money to cover other sums that he had misapplied?
The truth of the Greeks was mistaken by the pseudo-classicists and misapplied.
The modern use of the lambrequin as an ornamental finish to window-curtains is another instance of misapplied decoration.
Probably red-headed, since the name was misapplied to a specimen of a pileated woodpecker.
In most of them Milton's phraseology is weakened and misapplied.
Its object was wholly different from that to which it has been misapplied.
In short, the bill seems to have been a model of misapplied benevolence.
As a result, one does not have to discard the container if a label is misapplied, as it can be removed without leaving any adhesive residue.
In Paris the cakewalk is a thing of misunderstood, misapplied accents.
A term singularly, but very often, misapplied in parlance for orbit.
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