misusage

The careless misusage of the term schizophrenia has been discouraged and written about by professionals.

The mutant grinned at Pucky's misusage.

The punster: the punch line, which typically involves a pun-based misusage of the word set up during the response (How did you know?!)

Though this mistake can be found almost 200,000 times on the Web, including on a United States Navy site, common misusage does not make it so.

In the Dr. Scholl misusage, callus - with a u, no o - is an attributive noun modifying removers.

The second edition of the Random House Dictionary seems to catalogue, qualify and endorse each example of misusage of the language according to its observed frequency.

One Frazier misusage did come Sunday when Hornets guard Muggsy Bogues dribbled into heavy traffic and basically handed the ball to Ewing.

There was a moment at halftime of a recent Knicks-Charlotte game, when MSG's Al Trautwig grasped Frazier's bizarre word misusage.

I think it was a misusage: if the former first lady becomes the most powerful force in the Senate, then the elected leader of the Senate Democrats, Tom Daschle, would be derogated as merely the titular leader, which would imply that Senator Clinton held the real power.

His English (not his first language, one assumes) is a fascinating blend of precision and blurry misusage ("to propitiate a bounteous harvest of fish"; "not unlike a king's captain proudly would flaunt a standard") which somehow add to rather than detract from the courtliness and peculiar charm of his rococo style.