verbWord forms: -plies, -plying or -plied(transitive)
1.
to apply wrongly or badly
2. another word for misappropriate
Derived forms
misapplication (ˌmɪsæplɪˈkeɪʃən)
noun
misapplied in American English
(ˌmɪsəˈplaid)
adjective
mistakenly applied; used wrongly
Word origin
[1620–30; mis-1 + applied]This word is first recorded in the period 1620–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acid, geometric, hotbed, phosphorus, vetomis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust
Examples of 'misapplied' in a sentence
misapplied
Those who have suffered because of excessive or misapplied doses are a tiny minority.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The question was whether they had misapplied it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Sentences swerve between different constructions, words are sometimes misapplied, set descriptions incoherent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But the word 'lottery' is surely misapplied.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Misapplied or imperfect learning brings its own nemesis.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
They were, however, grievously misapplied to material whose richest rewards only emerge when the delivery is kept simple.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is a view that the rule was misapplied to a horse that should have been pulled up.