Sentence examples for being incorrectly used from inspiring English sources

At the end of last month we had another of those instances where an expert in their field complains that a word was being incorrectly used by a setter, who should have known better.

"They were incorrectly used, and in my opinion, abused" during the housing boom.

However, in one patient this came at the cost of inappropriate over-generalisations, in which trained words were incorrectly used to name semantically or visually similar objects.

In the version of this article initially published, the word Tip60 was incorrectly used instead of Pirh2 in the legend for Fig. 2b.

The term "iniquities" was incorrectly used in this sentence: "Last year's … And Then You Shoot Your Cousin was a dark, 30-minute concept piece about the soul-destroying inequities facing the black US underclass".

This metric has been incorrectly used in the field of landscape ecology – its definition is different from its definition in every other field, causing it to lose its ecological meaning.

Newman's maps are quite distinct, which makes it easier to unearth his research as the original source of the map that is incorrectly used in the Facebook image.

"Flathead" is incorrectly used in some early works to denote all Salishan-speaking peoples, only some of whom molded infants' heads so as to achieve a uniform slope from brow to crown; notably, the people presently referred to as the Flathead did not engage in this practice (see head flattening).

Often cohesive devices were incorrectly used by the writers.

The word pomerium was soon transferred to the strip of land between this line and the actual city wall, and was then used in both senses (Dionys. I.88); while at a later period it seems to have been still further extended in application and to have been incorrectly used of the strip on both sides of the wall (Liv. I.44).

Often, the toothcomb is incorrectly used to characterize all strepsirrhines.