as in misuses
incorrect or improper use
the misemployment of interns as errand runners when they have valuable ideas to contribute
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abuses
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The travelogue portion of Walking the Bypass is sutured, sometimes maladroitly, to a history of the Crown’s abuses of Indigenous peoples.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025 -
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Misemployments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misemployments. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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