5 Verbs to Use for the Word misuses

He may drive an iron bar through his cheeks and tongue, thus preventing all misuse of the gift of speech.

As it laid great stress on its proper use, so did it denounce and abhor its misuse.

Besides several other faults, it contains a palpable misuse of the article itself: "the h" which is specified in the second and fifth sentences, is the "silent h" of the first sentence; and this inaccurate specification gives us the two obvious solecisms of supposing, "if the [silent] h be sounded," and of locating "words WHERE the [silent] h is not silent!"

On the other hand, we find that some of the best and wisest of men confess the inadequacy of language, while they also deplore its misuse.

More and more Rowley Papers, as they were called, were produced by Chatterton,apparently from the archives of the old church; in reality from his own imagination,delighting a large circle of readers, and deceiving all but Gray and a few scholars who recognized the occasional misuse of fifteenth-century English words.

5 Verbs to Use for the Word  misuses