misemploy
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they can not misemploy it.
From Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
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
V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate. desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
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