Meanings of misuse word in English

Neither in joy nor sorrow did Jane's talent desert her for misusing words.

Oh how much recent human folly has been committed in connection with that misused word!

And then, do we not misuse words?

Misused words also annoy Evans.

They distorted the meanings of epithets which they applied to nations, parties and individuals without the slightest realization that to misuse words produces confusion.

I'm not dismissing your entire argument on the basis of one misused word-butit's also much easier to correct on a website than in print.

Evans takes aim in his book at monologophobia (the fear of using the same word twice in sentence) pleonasms (unnecessary words) and misusing words.

From Hackney to Handsworth, it was impossible to avoid the sense that this was an expression of that much misused word "community" in action.