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misapplication: wrong use or application

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anachronism collapse: an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

misrendering collapse

misappropriation collapse: wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"

errancy collapse: fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err; (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church"

torturing collapse

mishandling collapse

mismanagement collapse: management that is careless or inefficient; "he accomplished little due to the mismanagement of his energies"

desecration collapse

profanation collapse: degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening; blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"

misreading collapse: misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading

squeezing collapse

misapprehension collapse

misusage collapse

pilfering collapse

embezzlement collapse: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

specious reasoning collapse

misinterpretation collapse: putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning"

self-contradiction collapse: contradicting yourself

plausibility collapse: apparent validity

malpractice collapse: a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices"; professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice"

misunderstanding collapse

defalcation collapse: the sum of money that is misappropriated

untruth collapse

misalliance collapse: an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)

misjudgment collapse

misconception collapse: an incorrect conception

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

prostitution collapse: offering sexual intercourse for pay

circularity collapse: the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure

heresy collapse: a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion

pollution collapse: undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

misconstruction collapse: an ungrammatical constituent

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

sophistication collapse: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"; the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

misconduct collapse: bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf

speciousness collapse: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

malfeasance collapse: wrongful conduct by a public official

vicious circle collapse: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved; one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

insincerity collapse: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

unorthodoxy collapse: the quality of being unorthodox; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

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