misusage

How to use misusage in a sentence

• Alas (quoth she deep sighing) why did I enter into anie mention of my owne misusage?

  The Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton | Thomas Nash

• He had been grossly misused on the occasion, and had escaped from such misusage by the only means in his power.

  Mr. Scarborough's Family | Anthony Trollope

• Such a misusage of the flag occurred, for example, at Belmont.

  With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train | Ernest N. Bennett

• Distrust and selfishness came from misusage; they were man's defence against extortion.

  Pelle the Conqueror, Complete | Martin Anderson Nexo