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Misapplication

Misapplication Meaning & Definition
Misapplication Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Misapplication?

[n] the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
[n] wrong use or application

Synonyms | Synonyms for Misapplication: defalcation | embezzlement | misappropriation | peculation

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | wrongness

See Also | application | larceny | plunderage | practical application | raid | stealing | theft | thievery | thieving

Misapplication In Webster's Dictionary

\Mis*ap`pli*ca"tion\, n. A wrong application. --Sir T. Browne.

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