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We know that legal prescription drugs, if misused, are anything but harmless and cause a growing number of deaths each year.
Whether or not that happens is in the realm of conjectures, given the inevitable human tendency to misuse just about anything that makes our lives easier.
The "behavioral addictions" would quickly expand from their narrowly intended, (perhaps) appropriate usage to become a popular and much misused label for anything that people do for fun but causes them trouble.
If anything, that misused quote may be one of his more benign fairy tales.
Anything can be misused".
I occasionally come across people who make the claim that the words decimate and decimation are misused if they apply to anything other than the killing of every 10th person, on the grounds that this was the original meaning of the word in English.
Among his most memorable quotes was "A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything" and "I grew up speaking Hiberno English: English woven on a Gaelic loom".
Most males do not seem to find anything wrong with the misuse of men or women as sexual objects, or associating masculinity or femininity to having more sexual relationships.
Anything, I guess, except misusing passports!
The result, market participants said, has been an increase in private oversight for a business that until Enron collapsed, largely from its misuse of structured finance, had encouraged an "anything goes" mentality.
Like anything, a brand can be misused.
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