misemploy
Example Sentences
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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
I do not mean to misemploy much of your time, which I know is always passed in good works, and usefully.
From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi
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 Sue Petigru Bowen
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
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
