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Word Meanings - MISAPPROPRIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

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  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • EMBEZZLE
    1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • CONFUSEDNESS
    A state of confusion. Norris.
  • CONFUSE
    Mixed; confounded. Baret.
  • CONFUSEDLY
    In a confused manner.
  • CONFUSELY
    Confusedly; obscurely.
  • MISAPPROPRIATE
    To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
  • EMBEZZLER
    One who embezzles.
  • PECULATE
    To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.
  • EMBEZZLEMENT
    The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge. Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud
  • APPROPRIATELY
    In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
  • FALSIFY
    To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. 2. To counterfeit; to
  • UNAPPROPRIATE
    1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
  • INCONFUSED
    Not confused; distinct.
  • DISAPPROPRIATE
    Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.
  • UNAPPROPRIATED
    1. Not specially appropriate; having not special application. J. Warton. 2. Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others; as, unappropriated lands. 3. Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as,
  • SPECULATE
    To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori. (more info) 1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate;
  • INAPPROPRIATE
    Not instrument ; not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.

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