Sentence examples for a misuse of language from inspiring English sources
It was a misuse of language, Lord Justice Brown said,to describe the magistrates' campaign as being for "political ends", or their approach to Mr Berlusconi as one of political persecution...the magistracy are demonstrating...an even-handedness in dealing equally with the politicians of all political parties.
For it to mean anything else would be a mistake and a misuse of language by the speaker, or a misunderstanding of language by the listener.
In a passage preserved in Nemesius, he says that when something intelligible enters into a relation to some place or to a thing in a place, it is by a misuse of language that we say that it is there.
Calling ice an epidemic is a misuse of language; it's a deceptive metaphor.
Calling methamphetamine use an 'epidemic' is a misuse of language; it's a deceptive metaphor.
The granting of planning permission does not constitute immunity from a claim in nuisance, however; in Wheeler v Saunders Ltd. the Court of Appeal said that it would be "a misuse of language to describe what has happened in the present case as a change in the character of the neighbourhood.
A different kind of human ambassador is sent to Embassytown, one who can give them what they want – or an intoxicating imitation of it, a misuse of their language producing a kind of false lie.
My first eight ways to make a customer uncomfortable fall into this misuse-of-language category and boy, they are doozies.
Mr. Obama's assertion that justice was done was "a total misuse of language," Mr. Robertson said.
Application of the word "privatization," however, is almost always a misuse of the English language, albeit one that has become so common that it falls automatically off the tongue and flows unchecked past the ear.
