Words similar to misused

Example sentences for: misused

How can you use “misused” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He got it, and almost ran out of breath as he rattled off a lengthy list of the accusations against Nixon, including that he 'misused the FBI, [and] the Secret Service, to conduct unlawful wiretapping of American citizens [and] maintained a secret unit in the White House to violate the constitutional rights of citizens.
Rejecting the political neutrality of the Red Cross, the group is often outspoken about the injustices its members see; the organization was expelled from Ethiopia in 1985, and withdrew from Rwanda in 1994 because aid was being misused.
[Deceptively] is frequently misused.
Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.
These include: "wake-up call" (46); "above my pay grade" (41); "paralysis by analysis" (2); "new facts on the ground" (1); and "mano a mano " (1), which, as reader Jay Brida pointed out, is always misused (it's Spanish not for "man to man," but "hand to hand").