misemploy
[mis-em-ploi]
- to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
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Origin of misemploy
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To turn one of his colonels into my Spanish master would be seriously to misemploy his precious time.
The Actress in High LifeSue Petigru Bowen