misusage
101Misuse — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Misuse >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 misuse misuse misusage misemployment misapplication misappropriation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 abuse abuse profanation prostitution desecration Sgm: N 2 waste …
102misuse — I. v. a. 1. Misemploy, misapply, desecrate, profane, pervert, put to a wrong use. 2. Abuse, maltreat, ill treat, ill use. 3. Waste, squander, fool away, fritter away, muddle away, spend foolishly. II. n. 1. Abuse, perversion, prostitution,… …
103abuse — v 1. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate; wrong, aggrieve, Inf. shaft, Inf. give [s.o.] the shaft, disrespect, Sl. do [s.o.] dirty, Sl. kick [s.o.] around; profane, pervert, prostitute; exploit, impose upon, take advantage of, walk all… …
104barbarism — n 1. crudity, coarseness, vulgarity; unenlightenment, uncivilizedness. See barbarity (def.3). 2. atrocity, outrage, enormity. See barbarity (def.2). 3. misuse, misusage, misapplication, error, infelicity, Obs. ill usage; catachresis, solecism,… …
105mauling — n 1. mishandling, mistreatment, manhandling, ill treatment, misusage; punishment, injury, damage, harm. 2. beating, cudgeling, drubbing, clubbing, pounding, thumping, battering, punching; shoving, pushing, bulldozing, knocking around; fustigation …
106misuse — 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 …
107slant — v 1. slope, lean, incline, tilt, pitch, dip; bend, bias, shift, shelve, cant, list, keel; skew, curve, veer, swerve; deviate, diverge, angle off, bear off, bevel, sheer. 2. bias, bend, twist, screw, wrest, garble; distort, misrepresent, misreport …
108solecism — n 1.(of grammar) substandard use, incorrectness, misusage, faulty syntax, misconstruction, anacoluthon; barbarism, corruption, cacology; mal apropism, spoonerism. 2. gaffe, gaucherie, faux pas, stupidity, impropriety, indiscretion, indelicacy,… …
109barbarism — [n] crudity, savagery, especially in speech atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism,… …
110misuse — [n] abuse; wrong application abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage,… …
