Crossword-Solution: MISUSE 6 letters, 138 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Misuse v. t. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to
misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
Misuse v. t. To abuse; to treat ill.
Misuse n. Wrong use; misapplication; erroneous or improper use.
Misuse n. Violence, or its effects.

We have 138 clues for the answer “MISUSE”

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Apply improperly 1 answer
Apply incorrectly 1 answer
Buck resents this: London's Call of the Wild. 1 answer
Dilapidation cause 1 answer
Do the wrong thing with 1 answer
Embezzle, say 1 answer
Embezzlement, say 1 answer
Employ incorrectly 1 answer
Faulty application 1 answer
Hammer with pliers, perhaps 1 answer
Improper application 1 answer
Improper handling 1 answer
Incorrect treatment. 1 answer
Malapropism, e.g. 1 answer
Malapropism, for example. 1 answer
Operate incorrectly 1 answer
Putting a Q-tip all the way into your ear canal, per the box 1 answer
Squander, say 1 answer
Warranty invalidator 1 answer
Wrong treatment 1 answer
use in the wrong way 1 answer
wrong application 1 answer
Handle wrongly 2 answers
Malaprop, e.g. 2 answers
IMPROPER treatment 3 answers
Handle incorrectly 3 answers
Handle badly 3 answers
Ill-treat 4 answers
Do harm to 5 answers
Malapropism 6 answers
misapplication 9 answers
misappropriation 9 answers
BADLY TRANSLATED OLD MANUAL SO ECCENTRIC 10 answers
blaspheme 10 answers
misappropriate 11 answers
apply wrongly 11 answers
overwork 11 answers
Treat badly 14 answers
Take the wrong way 17 answers
fritter 17 answers
bullyrag 18 answers
Work over 18 answers
MAKE bad use of 19 answers
Squander 19 answers
Dilapidation 22 answers
misrepresentation 29 answers
porno 31 answers
field of force 31 answers
Porn 32 answers
licentiousness 32 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with MISUSE (5)

Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Bot what man wolde himself avise, 520 His conscience and noght misuse, He may wel ate ferste excuse His god, which evere stant in on: In him ther is defalte non, So moste it stonde upon ousselve Nought only upon ten ne twelve, Bot plenerliche upon ous alle, For man is cause of that schal falle.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
But if there be a soul on earth So blinded with its own misuse Of man's revealed, incessant worth, Or worn with anguish, that it views No light but for a mortal eye, No rest but of a mortal sleep, No God but in a prophet's lie, No faith for "honest doubt" to keep; If there be nothing, good or bad, But chaos for a soul to trust, -- God counts it for a soul gone mad, And if God be God, He is just.
The Children of the Night Edwin Arlington Robinson 2008
There is no doubt that he had committed crimes both public and private, having been guilty of misuse of office as well as of gross offenses against morality; therefore his death was not a matter of personal vengeance but of just retribution.
The Soul of the Indian [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008
One of his peculiarities was a constant misuse of words, and now, in his excitement, he outdid himself.
The Story of a Pioneer Anna Howard Shaw 1995

Quotes with MISUSE (3)

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials
Please understand something. God didn’t create evil in the world, but He did create free will, which allowed for the possibility of evil. Science isn’t like that. What you explore and find, God did create. It already exists. When you find it, you are discovering something God made. And everything God created is good. God said so in Genesis. He looked around at everything He had made and said, ‘It is very good.’”“How men use science can be evil, I’m with you a hundred percent …
Dee Henderson Undetected
We didn't, after all, sing "Another One Bites The Dust" as the coffin was carried out; Hazel and the vicar had settled instead on the more traditional "How Great Thou Art". And Aunty Rose's old adversary the mayor was pressed into service as a coffin bearer to replace Matt. Rose Adele Thornton, born in Bath, England, died in Waimanu, New Zealand, a mere fifty-three years later. Adept and compassionate nurse, fervent advocate of animal welfare, champion of correct diction and …
Danielle Hawkins Dinner at Rose's
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Used 42 times in crossword archives (1946–2021).