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misapplication
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun misapplication has 2 senses
- misapplication(n = noun.act) Array - wrong use or application; Array is a kind of application, practical application
- misapplication(n = noun.act) defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else; Array has particulars: raid, plunderage
Derived form verb misapply1
is a kind of larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving
THESAURUS
misapplication
aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, apparent soundness, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, delusion, desecration, deviancy, disingenuousness, distortion, diversion, eisegesis, embezzlement, equivocalness, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, fouling, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, insincerity, invalid linking, jesuitism, jesuitry, maladministration, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malpractice, malversation, mesalliance, misalliance, misapplicability, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscitation, misconception, misconduct, misconnection, misconstruction, misdoing, misemployment, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, mishandling, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanagement, misquotation, misreading, misreference, misrelation, misrendering, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, peccancy, peculation, perversion, philosophism, pilfering, plausibility, plausibleness, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, rationalization, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, squeezing, subtlety, torturing, twisting, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, violation, wrenching, wrong, wrongnessROGET THESAURUS
misapplication
Misuse
N misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation, abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration, waste, misused, ludere cum sacris.Unskillfulness
N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.Misinterpretation
N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.
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