misapplied

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misapplied

  1. simple past and past participle of misapply
    • 1831, L E L[andon], chapter XV, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 228:
      "Dear mamma " was an enormous edifice of white satin and diamonds, which one laments over, as one does over a misapplied peerage, that ever some people should possess them.