List of synonyms from "misunderstood" to synonyms from "mixed-up"


Discover all the synonyms available for the terms misunderstood, mitten, misused, mitigation, mitigated, mix it up with and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « misused »

  • verb abuse; apply wrongly
Example sentences :
  • The bread was genuine homemade, a term so often misused in the cities.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Plotinus is a mystic, then, though not at all in the sense in which the term is often misused.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • The physicians do not like to touch a tool which has been misused so badly.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • In speaking and in writing of stage matters, these words are often misused.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • The sense in which it is misused is that of immodest, indecent.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • The child singing-voice is not rough and harsh unless it is misused.
  • Extract from : « The Child-Voice in Singing » by Francis E. Howard
  • Do you see how he has misused me; has fettered me to the sick-bed?
  • Extract from : « The Home » by Fredrika Bremer
  • Such a lot of college men seem to have misused their advantages.
  • Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
  • If misused the fault lies with the disciple, not with Nature.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
  • Bessie Madigan could not be got to admit that she had ever misused a word.
  • Extract from : « The Madigans » by Miriam Michelson