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Meanings of misapplication in inglês

português
apropriação
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desfalcament

The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.

apropriação
Usage of misapplication in inglês
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It began by accident: a misapplication of colour on a nearly-finished canvas.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
2
The misapplication of public money has become the great crime of the age.
The Financier: A Novel
3
This misapplication of terms must be very often perplexing to the young student.
Seven Discourses on Art
4
Earnest Christian ministers and laymen strive with this misapplication wherever they discover it.
Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
5
Every spill or every misapplication of make-up and I reach for the wipes.
The Irish Times
6
While, therefore, we blame their misapplication, we should beware of depreciating their value.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
7
Corruption erodes faith in government because of the mismanagement and misapplication of public resources.
This child will be great
8
Strange that their very elevation was a misapplication, that to raise seemed to falsify.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
9
The misunderstanding or the misapplication of any principle, theory or device, always leads to error.
The Renaissance of the Vocal Art / A Practical Study of Vitality...
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It is misapplication which makes much of what is called "artistic furnishing" ridiculous.
Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples
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Mr Parker says people can wrongly assume this is resistance to the chemical rather than misapplication.
Radio NZ
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Hence the usual misapplication of the sinking fund.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The substance of this statement is correct, but there is a slight misapplication of the facts.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
14
It's the misapplication of the principle that has retarded Alaska and ruined so many of us.
The Iron Trail
15
That is a sad misapplication of the word.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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It is a misapplication of his powers, which it also cripples, and tears away his hearers.
Cowper
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