'Misapplication' definitions:
Definition of 'misapplication'
(from WordNet)
noun
Wrong use or application
noun
The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]
Definition of 'Misapplication'
From: GCIDE
- Misapplication \Mis*ap`pli*ca"tion\, n. A wrong application. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misapplication'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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