Definition of "misemploy" []

• To employ incorrectly; to misuse. (verb)

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• "All trust in constitutions is grounded on the assurance they may afford, not that the depositaries of power will not, but that they cannot, misemploy it."
• "John Stuart Mill called it: "A means of assuring that depositories of power cannot misemploy it.""
• "One patient I observed over a three-month period did not so much break the rules as flagrantly misemploy available excuses for breaking them."