misemploy
Example Sentences
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If any modern author had written this, our critics would have guessed he had learned from some of the Quakers to misemploy thee for thou.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Yet, bred in errors, thou dost misemploy That strength heaven gave thee, and its flock destroy.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
But the Scottish Solomon who was on the alert, added another law restraining its cultivation 'to misuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful Kingdom.'
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
You will not only misemploy your time for the present, but impede your power for the future.'
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
Do misemploy, misuse, and pervert apply to persons or things?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
