misapply in the PONS Dictionary

misapply Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to misapply sth

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The specifics of this law are unwritten, however, and so each is likely to misapply it in his own case.
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It was also occasionally misapplied to images whose color was non-photographic, i.e., due to local coloring by handwork of some kind.
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Fast processing that is misapplied is not helpful for real-time database systems.
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Accordingly, ericoid could have more than one meaning and it has been misapplied from time to time in the literature.
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Past projects have failed because of financing, cost overruns, regulatory conflicts, political issues, misapplied technology, and flaws in design, engineering or review.
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The shoegazing genre label was quite often misapplied.
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When the statistical reason involved is false or misapplied, this constitutes a statistical fallacy.
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His explanation was met with criticism on-line, by people who argued that the concept was misapplied.
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He never denied the charges but argued that the law was misapplied in his case.
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When the inference is misapplied, the syllogistic fallacy is called an illicit subalternation.
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