The term inflation is widely misused to confuse the unwary.
If there was any other tool as widely misused in your organization, you'd ban it.
The term suffragette is only used to describe those who used violent protest, although the term is widely misused to describe all campaigners.
Vergence does not mean the direction of slip along a fault-even though it is widely misused in this way.
"Is there any other word that has been so widely misused?"
The term food allergy is widely misused for all adverse reactions to food.
The terms have been misused widely to refer to blank smartcards or various other hardware devices which were built around these processors.
Secobarbital was widely misused in the 1960s and 1970s, and accidental overdose was associated with the drug.
The term stereopticon has been widely misused to name a stereoscope.
Substantial amounts of money just disappeared, and the Solidarity committees were widely misused for political organizing.