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misapplication

CIDE DICTIONARY

misapplicationn. 
     A wrong application.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

misapplication

Misuse

N misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation, abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration, waste, misused, ludere cum sacris.

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

Misinterpretation

N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.


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