| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
Antonyms: |
kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
Synonyms: |
abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | solecism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misuse |
Synonyms: |
abuse, barbarism, blunder, cacology, error, impropriety, mistake, misusage |
| Main Entry: | mishandling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, ill-treatment, injustice, maltreatment, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdeed, mismanage, mistreatment, misusage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | mistreatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, ill-treatment, injustice, maltreatment, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misusage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | misusage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, ill-treatment, injustice, maltreatment, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, mistreatment, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Concept: | Solecism. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety.
-verbs
use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head.
-adjectives
ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic, solecistical.
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| Concept: | Misuse. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation., abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste.
-verbs
-adjectives
misused.
-phrases
ludere cum sacris.
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Antonyms: |
use |
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