Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.
At any rate, Apollos should not be blamed for the faults of those who misused his name.
That word "fulness" was much misused in the "Gnostic" speculations of the second century.
That we shall win our freedom I have no doubt; that we shall use it well I am not so certain, for see how sadly misused it is abroad through the world to-day.
Loyalty is the fine attribute of the fine nature; the word has been misused and maligned in Ireland: let us restore it to its rightful honour by remembering it to be the virtue of our heroes of all time.
We have come through too many generations of misused force to get back into a natural use of our powers in any rapid way; it must come step by step, as a man is trained to use a complicated machine.
It is not uncommon for a mother, whose daughter is suffering, and may be on the verge of nervous prostration because of her misused nerves, to say, "I do not want my daughter to know that she has nerves.
But it taught her to "relax" to a pain instead of bracing up and fighting it, and to live in a natural way so far as an organic disease and sixty years of misused and over-used force would allow.
Then the old saying which is profoundly true as it was originally meant, and has of late years been so misused as to become profoundly false, will be true again, 'Laborare est orare.
The aim which should ever burn clear before us, and preside over even our smallest actions, is that which lies in this misused old word, 'edify' yourselves.
Nowhere else can so vivid a picture of misused genius be found as in the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
Few men equalled Coleridge in the matter of prompt readiness of retort, and few have so misused the lavish gifts of Providence.
The partisans of Canterbury seized the offending archbishop, bishops we are told even leading the attack, dragged him away, threw him to the floor, and misused him seriously.
That portion of the old English machinery which the Conqueror had preserved fell into disorder, and was misused for royal, and worse still, for private advantage.
Alcohol, morphine, cocaine, tobacco, and many other drugs may have been misused and may have produced a most marked alteration in the mind-brain system.
The physicians do not like to touch a tool which has been misused so badly.
It is claimed that suggestive power, especially in the form of hypnotization, may be secretly misused to make anyone without his knowledge and against his will a passive instrument of the hypnotist's intent.
It has real "beauty"; the hackneyed and misused term can only be properly applied to Donatello's work in very rare cases, of which this is one.
Four more figures from the old façade, now standing outside the Porta Romana of Florence, are misused and saddened relics.
The Pope was living no more at Rome, but at Avignon, under the shadow of the French king, and the power of the Papacy was being shamelessly misused for French objects.
English money, which had been hitherto the best and purest in Europe, was horribly misused by him.
Misused in one way, it lowers the biographer's own character; misused in another, it either lowers or unnaturally exalts that of his subject.
Knowing what lies back of it all, the student is now prepared to receive the instructions which he might have misused before.
His only impression after the lapse of some time was, that in the meanwhile Fleischmann had misused the same words, "German art," an endless number of times.
A word rarely used by those who truly possess it, but so constantly misused by those who understand nothing of its meaning, that it is becoming a synonym for vulgarity and imitation.
There are certain words which have been singled out and misused by the undiscriminating until their value is destroyed.
The word "elegance" before it was misused out of existence expressed it even better.
These must be constantly used when they are needed, and not misused in the artificial method known as "picture talks.
Few of her girls would have hesitated to express their minds had any one misused them, or to insist upon comfortable conditions should uncomfortable ones exist for them.
You don't expect as much of the child who has been, misused and neglected as you do of the one who has been raised properly and always loved.
Sir," he said, "you have betrayed our confidence, andmisused our trust.
I forgot to note downe that, passing a river, the boatmen misused our servantes and would not let our horses passe, but gave them blowes.
SIR,--I give a list of misused words that have occurred to me during a month on the Continent.
I may add that when I have used and not misused words, I have been told that I have no right to swear--so what can I do?
SIR,--I am glad to see that there is a correspondence upon misused words.
He has no complicating quinsy, and in that case I can say without hesitation that he has outrageously misused his voice.
We all possess voice-mechanism, and possibly there is no other physical apparatus that is misused so much.
But, if he had not misused that institution as he misused everything, there would have been nothing to blame in the invention of a recompense which was an inducement to every kind of merit, without being a great expense to the State.
The fall of Tsingtao gave her a favorable opportunity, and she used and misusedit unjustifiably.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: downtrodden; henpecked; oppressed; perverted; servile; slavish; submissive
