Associations to the word «Misapplication»

Wiktionary

MISAPPLICATION, noun. The misuse of something, incorrectly using (applying) something, a wrong application.

Dictionary definition

MISAPPLICATION, noun. Wrong use or application.
MISAPPLICATION, noun. The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne