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Example sentences for: misused

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Everyone has a pet peeve, be it a misused word, an unusual pronunciation, or what have you.
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.
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.
In the Willey case, appointment to a federal board and a trip to a conference in Indonesia raise the question of whether the president misused government resources.
Carey was barred, say the papers, because he misused his power by tolerating and engaging in various laundering schemes to funnel money from his union's general fund to his own election effort.