Sentence examples for much misused from inspiring English sources

The word has been much bandied about and much misused in the last few days".

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.

This might seem an obvious statement but "mainstream" is a much misused word.

"Unique" is a much misused word, but it applies to Glyndebourne.

"In Spending $180 Million on Tutoring Help, Much Misuse" (news article, Texas edition, Oct. 6) suggests that most providers of free, federally financed tutoring services are engaged in fraudulent activity or are otherwise corrupt.

Although it is subject to much misuse, misunderstanding and confusion (Sijtsma 2009; Yang and Green 2011), Cronbach's alpha has for a long time been the most widely used quality indicator test statistics measure (e.g., Novick and Lewis 1967).

Few words in our great language have suffered as much misuse as this one lowly adjective.

The word 'surrogate' is equivalent to 'substitute', and strictly a surrogate end-point should be able to substitute completely for the end-point of interest; there is, however, much misuse of the term.

Though Monsignor Belford said Father Dunne spent "a significant amount of church money" on gambling, exactly how much money was misused will not be known until the district attorney's office finishes its work, he said.

Such words seem to contradict Theodor Adorno's much-used (and misused) contention that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric".

These words have been used (often misused) so much that they have either lost their meaning or become go-to substitutes when a company or employee has nothing of substance to say.