Crossword-Solution: MISUSAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Misusage | n. | Bad treatment; abuse. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MISUSAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| IMPROPER usage | 1 answer |
| Mrs. Malaprop's problem | 1 answer |
| wrong usage | 1 answer |
| Unjust treatment | 3 answers |
| Malapropism | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISUSAGE (5)
Moreover, this mischief there is besides, That there is no law or statute to punish the ignorance of blind Physicians, though a man lost his life by them: neither was there ever any man knowne, who had revenge of recompence for the evill intreating or misusage under their hands.
And what if you do discover it? Suppose the contemptuous trampling of your foot should rouse the injured worm, which its Creator has furnished with a sting to protect it against misusage.
And even now, I shudder to think what guilt he might have incurred! Even as it resulted, only in the destruction of property, how can I help being shocked at the discovery of a secret disposition which could have prompted such a deed? O, how different has been the conduct of him who has thus been made the victim of his misusage!” “Different! Why, what has he done? I was not aware--” “True, I am reminded that I have not told you.
For flesh and blood she is, and that young blood,--whom her childish misusage and your brotherly love; her loneliness and your protection; her springing fancy and (for I may speak to you as a son) your beauty and knightly grace, have so bewitched, and as some say, degraded, that briefly, she loves you, and briefly, better, her few friends fear, than you love her.
The tears start from his eyes, his throat rebels at its misusage, his big red handkerchief comes out.
Quotes with MISUSAGE (1)
Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite. Teenager slang is awful, students no longer learn Latin, our children — not to mention our president — cannot put together a grammatical sentence. The whimsical poet Ogden Nash was at least half serious in his “Laments for a dying language”:Coin brassy words at will, debase the coinage; We're in an if-you-cannot-lick-them-join age, A slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse age,…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2000–2014).