Heavy ceiling-mouldings are obviously out of place in a small room, and a plain expanse of plaster is always preferable to misapplied ornament.
The modern use of the lambrequin as an ornamental finish to window-curtains is another instance of misapplied decoration.
Then she heaved a sigh, and muttered something about misapplied talents.
Still it was a notorious fact that the magistracy misapplied their power, and did not trouble themselves at all about the proposals of the council of thirty-two notables, and hence the new regulations found as many approvers as opponents.
On the contrary, the young king regarded the minister as a man who had misapplied his influence over the late king to his own selfish ends.
Even the Liberal journals, who have shown themselves most earnest in promoting the cause of reform and self-government in Great Britain, have come to see how utterly it is misapplied when attempted in Ireland.
Modern botanists have misapplied the word to the leaf-stalk, which has no resemblance to a foot at all.
A name applied by the Greeks to the stem of the asphodel, and not misapplied to this set of plants, which in some sort resemble the asphodel.
He engages in it with a heart and understanding unspoiled: but they cannot long bemisapplied with impunity.
Suggested by observation of the way in which a young friend, whom I do not choose to name, misspent his time andmisapplied his talents.
Let the laws be but just to them and they will be sure of attaining competence, if they have not misjudged their own talents or misapplied them.
Again, the committee say that four navy yards were purchased without authority, and the money misapplied which was paid for them.
Trust not your souls upon misapplied Scriptures; he that is a child of God must be holy, for God is holy; and none are his sons and daughters but those who are adopted by the eternal Spirit, and led thereby.
Scriptures, and daub with the untempered mortar of misapplied promises.
He then attacked Wilkes, who, as he maintained, misapplied for his own private use the funds subscribed for public purposes to this society; and set up a rival 'Constitutional Society.
In short, the bill seems to have been a model of misapplied benevolence.
The person was convicted of having misapplied the public money, and ordered to make the barracks fit for the reception and accommodation of the troops at his own expense.
Fenimore Cooper misapplied to the whippoorwill in one of his novels).
There can, I think, be but little doubt that the Persian poets have misapplied the word "bulbul" in using it to denote the nightingale.
But this remark of Luther is evidently misapplied if it is made to mean that Luther sought ease, comfort, leniency in the cloister as a relief from the hard life which he had been leading.
The danger ofmisapplied grace is a present-day danger in every evangelical community.
The danger of the Gospel of the gracious forgiveness of sins beingmisapplied has always existed in the Church.
I examined this work with apprehension, lest he hadmisapplied those hard words; but my surprise was great, to find that he had used every one of them with as much propriety as a Lord Chief-Justice could have done.
These words of Solomon are thus wickedly misapplied by many to the present day.
I should not go so far as to say that we human beings have misapplied the laws of life in such a way as to kill those who are dear to us; rather, I think, we have never learned those laws except in their merest rudiments.
I venture to think that more people have been alienated from God by a pious but misapplied verbal use than were ever estranged from Him by sin.
The omission in Pope arose from a frequent source of misapplied language.
This “wonderful prologue,” which comprises some 200 lines of blank verse, is really a wonder of misapplied misappropriation.
Owen credit for a veritable triumph of misapplied energy and endurance--for having conceived a masterpiece of diabolical inventiveness, for having revealed a perfect genius for the perpetration of literary fraud.
States rights a sound doctrine, but has been perverted, misapplied and carried to extremes.
Woman suffrage has been caught in a snarl of state constitutional obstructions, inefficient election laws and themisapplied theory of States Rights.
It must be admitted, however, that this doctrine sometimes has been so perverted, misapplied and carried to such extreme limits as seriously to prejudice many worthy and intelligent citizens against its true merit and value.
To dream that you are employed in a well, foretells that you will succumb to adversity through your misapplied energies.
To see red-hot iron in your dreams, denotes failure for you by misapplied energy.
Two men of great genius should never be depreciated by the misapplied ingenuity of a parallel; on such occasions we ought to conclude magis pares quam similes.
However it may be in this case, certain it is that the same terms misapplied have often raised those delusive notions termed false analogies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misapplied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
