14 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
noun wrong use or application
noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Latin applicātiōbor. Old French aplicacionbor. Middle English applicacioun English application English misapplication From mis- + application.
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