misemploy

Example Sentences

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To turn one of his colonels into my Spanish master would be seriously to misemploy his precious time.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru

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 Brown, Goold

You will not only misemploy your time for the present, but impede your power for the future.'

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas

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 Billings, E. R.

V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate. desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark