Sentence examples for misusing words from inspiring English sources

Sachin Nakrani (@SachinNakrani) Sounds like James Tomkins has performed something of a Chun-Li lightning kick at Cardiff January 11 , 2014Updated at 4.42pm GMT 4.33pm GMT "I don't see the point in getting angry about people misusing words," says zen's Joe McGrath.

Equivocation Misusing words in an ambiguous manner.

5.2), if I mentioned to you that one possible act was right, and another wrong, despite these acts being exactly alike in all other respects, your initial reaction would be puzzlement, and if I persisted in my view upon interrogation, you might start to worry that I was simply confused or misusing words.

And, in our efforts to belong to the realm of snobby critics and hyper-conceptual artists, we end up misusing words that have very real, definitive meanings.

It could be a mark against you if you keep misusing words.

She also delights in misused words.

She created a game using a character named Blundering Ben, in which readers scored points by finding misused words and phrases.

Quotation marks suggest the writer's need for a straw man who misuses words like "irrational" or "primitive".

6. Create a game or activity that helps young students learn the correct uses of commonly misused words and phrases.

And there are moments when "Chinglish" seems ready to take off into a similar stratosphere of inanity, in which misused words achieve their own giddy logic and rhythms.

Subtitled "A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults" when it was published in 1909, Bierce's original was a list of commonly misused words.