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  • 51misusage — n 1. misapplication, misemployment, misappropriation, misuse; impropriety, malapropism, solecism, catachresis, corruption, barbarism, bad grammar. 2. abuse, ill use, ill usage, mishandling, mistreatment, maltreatment, ill treatment; manhandling,… …

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  • 52misuse — n 1. misapplication, misemployment, misappropriation, misusage. v 2. misapply, misemploy, misappropriate; wrong, aggrieve, profane, disrespect, pervert, prostitute; exploit, impose upon, take advantage of. 3. abuse, mistreat, maltreat, mishandle …

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  • 53perversion — n 1. deviation, aberration, anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variability, misguidance, misdirection, misadvisement; misinformation, misex planation, misexplication; misinstruction, miseduca tion, miscorrection; delusion, beguilement, deceit,… …

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  • 54profanation — n 1. irreverence, indevoutness, irre ligion, impiety, ungodliness, unholiness, profanity, profaning, profaneness; blasphemy, sacrilege, desecration; unrighteousness, unvirtuousness, consciencelessness, immorality; godlessness, sinfulness,… …

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  • 55prostitution — n 1. harlotry, whoredom, street walking, Mrs. Warren s profession, the oldest profession; whoremongering, whoremastery, pimping, pandering, procuring, procurement, procuration, hustling. 2. debasement, devaluation, degradation, lowering,… …

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  • 56waste — v 1. squander, fritter away, fool away, dissipate, lose, misuse, misspend; expend, consume, use up, drain, exhaust, deplete; throw away, burn up, run through, go through, Sl. blow; disperse, scatter, spill, muddle away; splurge, lavish, play the… …

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  • 57misemploy — /mɪsəmˈplɔɪ/ (say misuhm ploy) verb (t) to employ wrongly or improperly; misuse. –misemployment, noun …

  • 58misuse — [n] abuse; wrong application abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage,… …

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  • 59misemploy — [mis΄əm ploi′] vt. to employ, or use, wrongly or badly; misuse misemployment n …

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  • 60misemploy — v.tr. employ or use wrongly or improperly. Derivatives: misemployment n …

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