Crossword-Solution: MISUSES 7 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Invalidates the warranty of, in a way 1 answer
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Takes unfair advantage of 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISUSES (5)

The patient Year had lived through the reproaches and misuses of its slanderers, and faithfully performed its work.
The Chimes Charles Dickens 2011
But, unfortunately for the country, when attention is called to, or attack is made on specific misuses of capital, there has been a deliberate purpose on the part of the condemned minority to distort the criticism into an attack on all capital.
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt 2004
One does not become angry with a madman." One does not become angry with a madman; but while a man has power in his hands over others, and when he misuses that power grossly and cruelly, who is there that will not be angry? The misery of the insane more thoroughly excites our pity than any other suffering to which humanity is subject; but it is necessary that the madness should be acknowledged to be madness before the pity can be felt.
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 2002
The philosopher who does not believe is wrong, for he misuses the reason he has cultivated, and he is able to understand the truths he rejects.
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2004
Providence does not will the evil that man does when he misuses the freedom given to him; neither does Providence prevent him doing it, either because the wrong done by so feeble a creature is as nothing in its eyes, or because it could not prevent it without doing a greater wrong and degrading his nature.
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2004

Quotes with MISUSES (3)

O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.
Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin…
Anonymous Dives And Pauper
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.
Christopher Isherwood A Single Man
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