Sentence examples for widely misused from inspiring English sources

THE word "hacker" is widely misused.

THE word "dilemma" is widely misused.

This corporate form has since been widely misused by people other than accountants to hide or shift dirty money.

While Kentucky and other states have focused largely on narcotic painkiller addiction, experts say that benzodiazepines, the class of sedatives that includes Xanax, are also widely misused or abused, often with grim consequences.

Antiterrorism laws in India have been "widely misused to target political opponents, tribal groups, religious and ethnic minorities, and Dalits," a Human Rights Watch press release from 2012 said.

The term is widely misused: Frank Zimmerman, who received a suspended sentence for asking Louise Mensch which of her children she wished to remain alive, is not a troll, he is a hater (the death threats take him beyond the realm of ordinary hater into criminal hater; but that's his category nonetheless).

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It's the fact that injunctions – often a crucial tool in the administration of justice – are widely being misused by celebrities to cover up their personal indiscretions that has people seriously considering the place of the courts in such matters.

It is widely used (and misused) in the courts.

The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) is the most widely used and misused prediction equation in the world.

Passive design technology is still widely unknown or misused by Architects, to a large extent because information on these issues is scarce, mostly referring to foreign climatic and building contexts.