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"incorrect use of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to point out that someone has used something in an improper or incorrect way. For example: "The wrong syntax in that sentence is an incorrect use of the phrase."
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Ramatu believes that rumours are often based on incorrect use of the nets.
It is often caused by forceful singing, or by incorrect use of the voice.
Their selective, and in some cases factually incorrect, use of data distorts public perceptions.
An intern's eyes were harmed by the incorrect use of a pulsed ultraviolet laser.
It's not anything to do with bad language, drunkenness or incorrect use of the word tu.
Truss's book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, was energised by her furious certainties about the incorrect use of all these little marks.
There was also "incorrect use" of wrappers and fasteners, representing "serious and unacceptable failures," the agency said.
As a middle-school educator, I also bemoan the incorrect use of apostrophes, and I'm not optimistic for the future.
If there is no difference between correct and incorrect use of words, however, then nothing like language is possible.
"This is what we're seeing all too much of, the selective and often incorrect use of statistics to argue against these important alcohol-related violence laws".
"The incorrect use of 'fewer' and 'less' is another thing that annoys me," he said, warming to that subject but checking himself just in time.
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