misapply

How To Use misapply In A Sentence

• His Honour did not misapprehend the facts, he did not misapply legal principle, he did not miscalculate the damages, nor did he err in the exercise of his discretion.
• It was an offence to table such documents for verification as such reports were all stamped ‘strictly confidential’ and as a result some people took advantage of the veil of secrecy to divert or simply misapply resources.
• Applying ideas from fields other than one's own may not put one's life or health at risk but it can be a risky business: one can take concepts out of context or misapply them; one can also choose poorly in terms of concepts or theories.
• This conception is simply to misapply to tort doctrine applicable to sale and purchase. “Dead fly in water bottle” case to be decided by Supreme Court tomorrow : Law is Cool
• The Board did not misinterpret or misapply the evidentiary burden cast on the Respondent.
• And, as we've shown more than once, we're perfectly capable of punishing both soldiers who abuse our trust and leaders who misapply it.
• The Doric qualities of his work are becoming recognized also, and he is being read, as he has always been read by his true disciples -- so not inappropriately to name those who have come under his graver spell -- not merely as a _prosateur_ of purple patches, or a sophist of honeyed counsels tragically easy to misapply, but as an artist of the interpretative imagination of rare insight and magic, a writer of deep humanity as well as aesthetic beauty, and the teacher of Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
• It is at least simple enough for the simplest of critics to apply or misapply: whenever they see or suspect an inequality or an incongruity which may be wholly imperceptible to eyes uninured to the use of their spectacles, they assume at once the presence of another workman, the intrusion of a stranger's hand. A Study of Shakespeare
• But for quite some time now, we have been hearing of lawyers misapplying clients' money and involving themselves in activities that tarnish their professional image.
• There is also the tendency by our people to misapply assistance provided by well-wishers.